Look at these statements from headline articles in The La Porte Daily Argus in October 1924. Terminology, capitalization, and what makes headline news can be different. Yet accidents, business, crime, and war still make headlines. Want to read the whole article? It’s on microfilm in the Indiana Room at the Main Library. Staff will be glad to help you access it.
October 1
(New York) – Motorists throughout the east today are able to obtain gasoline at the lowest price since the war, as a result of the price reductions announced by the Gulf Refining company, owned by the Mellon interest, Standard Oil, Sinclair and other companies. The retail price should range from 15 to 18 cents a gallon.
October 2
(Washington) – France plans soon to refund her debt to the United States and take advantage of an eight to 12 year moratorium which has been offered her informally by official American representatives, the United Press learned today.
October 3
Re-routing of Lincoln highway between LaPorte and South Bend so that it will run to the south and completely miss New Carlisle, and thereby shorten the distance between this city and South Bend approximately two miles, was announced Thursday by the state highway commission.
October 4
(Washington) – Washington waited 50 years, for an American league pennant and nearly shook to death for three days before a world series, but her big day arrived.
October 6
(Cominskey Park, Chicago) – The White Sox won the baseball championship of Chicago, clinching the annual city series here this afternoon with a 5 to 3 win from the Cubs.
October 7
Howard DeMyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude De Myer, 508 Maple avenue, was elected editor-in-chief of the high school paper at an election held Monday afternoon. The young man received 298 votes, against 295 which were given to his opponent, Miss Dorothy Vogt.
October 8
“L P G N,” The Herald “broadcaster,” made its official debut on the air at 1 p.m. today. It received a warm welcome from the large number of baseball fans who gathered in front of The Herald office to listen to the play-by-play returns of the World Series, as announced hot off the wire less than five seconds from the time they took place on the diamond at Polo Grounds, New York City.
October 9
(Griffith Stadium, Washington) – Behind the teasing curves of Big Tom Zachary, the stout hearted Washington Senators squared the world series with the New York Giants at 3-all, here this afternoon when they won the sixth and best played games of the series by a score of 2 to 1 before 36,000 raving fans.
October 10
(Shanghai) – Additional sailors and marines were landed from American destroyers in the harbor here today as advancing Kinangsu troops again threatening capture of the city.
October 11
(Washington) – Washington yelled, shouted, whooped, and cheered all night long but still had a hoarse and rasping voice this morning to claim to the world that their Washington Senators were the best ball team in the world.
October 13
(Rangoon, India) – Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gleason of California, American teachers in a missionary school near here, were attacked by natives during rioting which followed word that Mahatma Ghandi had broken his self-imposed fast were reported as “progressing favorably” at the hospital today.
October 14
The Prince of Wales, H. R. H. David Windsor himself, passed through LaPorte county at 5:57 a.m. today, bound for Detroit where he will be the guest of Henry Ford today. The heir to the throne of England is said to have slept all the way through this county.
October 15
(Cheyenne, Wyo.) – An exhausted woman, still bowed with grief over the recent death of her husband, Governor William B. Ross. Wyoming, shortly after midnight tore herself from the company of thousands of friends, who had met to congratulate her on her nomination to succeed her deceased husband in office. Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross, a gentle cultured lady of the southland, accepted the nomination with tears in her eyes – a nomination she had begged not to have offered her.
October 16
(Quincy, Ill.) – From coast to coast this 1924 presidential campaign – in the opinion of impartial observers – is a crossword puzzle. An unending series of curious political situations filled with possibilities but lacking in certainties for all three candidates stretch indiscriminately across the nation from New York to Seattle.
October 17
(London) – Fourteen hundred candidates will be placed in nomination by the three political parties Saturday, with 12 days of storming campaigning remaining before the general election. Leaders expect the conservatives to name 540 candidates, labor 510 and liberals 250.
October 18
(Chicago) – Prison terms must be served by 42 mmebers of the Gary, Ind. “booze ring” in accordance with their original sentences. The United States circuit court of appeals here Friday upheld the decision of Federal Judge Geiger who heard the cases, involving some of the most prominent citizens of Gary. Roswell O. Johnson, ex-mayor of Gary, must serve 18 months in the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., and must pay a fine of $2,000.
October 20
“Universal peace, a return to a sound economic fabric and a renewal of the policy of live and let live will come as a result of untarnished distribution of news,” declared Fred S. Ferguson, vice-president of the United Press associations before the Kiwanis club luncheon today.
October 21
(Norfolk, Va.) – The mounting death toll of victims of an explosion in the forward twin gun mount of the U.S.S. Trenton reached six today and four others of the scout cruiser’s crew were burned in the blast during target practice off Cape Henry Monday were said at the naval hospital to be in a “desperate condition.”
October 22
(Rio de Janeiro) – A widespread plot to overthrow the government has been discovered and the leaders arrested, it was announced officially tonight.
October 23
(London) – Razors, bottles, wrenches, and stones figured in the British election campaign today. Violence, reminiscent of the days of the suffrage and the Irish disturbers marred meetings in many constituencies.
October 24
(Washington) – Pending a final decision as to whether it is legal to publish income tax figures, the department of justice today warned publishers that they print such data on their own responsibility.
October 25
A young man once called on a girl friend, and having nothing to talk about, he spent the evening talking about the fact that they didn’t have anything to talk about. This is a similar instance. This is a news story about the fact that there hasn’t been any news in Laporte to speak of for the last week or ten days. Police this week have not given out any news stories of any importance. “Nothing going on,” is the greeting Desk Sergeant George Wiedenbeck usually gives the reporter.
October 27
(Niles, O.) – Predicting an outbreak between the Ku Klux Klan and Knights of the Flaming Circle, anti-Klan organization, Mayor Kistler today called on Cleveland, Akron, Youngstown and Warren to send all available members of their police departments to Niles next Saturday when the Klan is scheduled to stage a masked parade.
October 28
(Chicago) – Drops of water ten million years old, obtained in South America by O.C. Farrington, head of the Chicago Field museum’s department of geouogy, will be placed on exhibition at the museum, it was announced today. The water, clear and sparkling, was found imprisoned in crystal quartz taken from rock formations of the archaean age at Bon Jesus Dos Meiras, Bahi, Brazil.
October 29
(London) – Twenty-two million British voters went to the polls today to register their approval or disapproval of Ramsey MacDonald’s labor government. Nine million of those voting are women.
October 30
Fifteen extra policemen will and the usual force Friday night to take care of Hallowe’en revelers, it was announced today by Police Chief Alfred Norris. These men will serve to a late hour at night and will have orders to arrest any person destroying property or committing acts of vandalism of any kind.
October 31
LaPorte has the honor of entertaining one of the world’s greatest violinists. Mischa Elman arrived in this city this afternoon from Cleveland, O., where he gave a concert.