Look at these statements from headline articles in The La Porte Daily Herald in September 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.
September 2
The school bell tolled the passing of summer vacation today and called approximately 6,700 pupils to their classrooms in city, parochial, and rural schools.
September 3
Pine Lake avenue was turned into a real-for-sure race course Tuesday afternoon when two Illinoisans tried to do the approximate half mile in 10 flat.
September 4
(London) – Reports of an attempt to assassinate Premier Mussolini near Acqua Pendente Sunday night have caused a sensation in Italy, according to the Daily Express Rome correspondent, who says the stock exchange was affected adversely.
September 5
(New York) – A letter threatening to kill the Prince of Wales has been received by the French consulate general and turned over to Scotland Yard and secret service men guarding the British heir by detectives of the bomb squad, according to police headquarters here today.
September 6
Approval of the installation of approximately 1,000 additional yards of sidewalks in the city was made today when the board of public works ordered the building of walks along Planett, Madison and L streets.
September 8
Mute testimony that Indiana was once the playground of pre-historic monsters is on display at The Herald office. It was brought to LaPorte from Walkerton Saturday by G. Earl Moss, advertising manager of The Herald. A monster tooth, parts of a tusk, and a large rib have been brought to the office. A head, also found on the scene of the Nickel Plate railroad bridge excavation at Walkerton over the Kankakee river, will be shown Tuesday.
September 9
(Shanghai) – Allied and American military commanders proclaimed martial law in the foreign settlement of Shanghai today as desperate fighting between the rival Chinese armies swept to within eight miles of the city.
September 10
Albert S. Ingalls, general manager of the New York Central trains to slow down to a speed of eight miles an hour while passing through New Carlisle, to conform with a town ordinance recently passed with the intention of reducing the danger at the “death crossing.”
September 11
(Chicago) – State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe already has started his fight to make certain that Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb spend the rest of their lives in the penitentiary.
September 12
(Milwaukee) – In a second sortie into enemy territory, Charles G. Dawes, Republican vice presidential candidate, characterized Senator Robert M. LaFollette, head of the independent ticket, as the leader of the mob, and the master demagogue.
September 13
A thrilling, patriotic demonstration, with flags fluttering and bands playing, marked LaPorte’s part in the first National Defense test Friday afternoon. The celebration was tangible evidence of the city’s never-failing dependability in answer to the nation’s call.
September 15
(Monterey, Calif.) – Geysers of flaming oil which leaped hundreds of feet into the air after lightning struck and ignited tanks of crude oil and gasoline here early Sunday today seemed to have completed their destruction after taking at least two lives and doing approximately $8,000,000 damage.
September 16
(Berlin) – The Hungarian government has granted diplomatic recognition to Russia.
September 17
Riding, stumbling, and groping their way through 855 feet of 48-inch tunnel, two men today emerged at the Country club end of the Kabelin drain after entering it shortly before at the Pine lake end. They were the first to go through the tunnel, the construction ends of which met squarely at 9 a.m. today 45 feet underground.
September 18
(Paris) – Doctors are dubious over the recovery of Anatole France, the novelist, according to a story published in the Matin today. The story denies that the writer is out of danger and says that he eats little and remains in bed except for 30 minutes daily.
September 19
The third death from sleeping sickness in LaPorte occurred at 7:45 Thursday night when Miss Rose Scholz died at the Holy Family hospital after an illness of three weeks.
September 20
(Topeka, Kans.) – With the avowed purpose of freeing Kansas “from disgrace of the Ku Klux Klan,” William Allen White, noted Kansas editor, today formally filed his candidacy for governor on an independent ticket.
September 22
Led by Samuel J. Taylor, 12 residents of Michigan City Saturday filed petition with the county commissioners taking appeal from the $1.76 tax levy established at Michigan City by the city commissioners recently.
September 23
(Indianapolis) – Increased postal rates were forecasted by Harry S. New, postmaster general, in an address today before the annual convention of the national association of postmasters.
September 24
Twenty-five men of foreign birth became citizens of the United States this morning at a hearing on naturalization conducted in circuit court by C. C. Spears of Chicago, United States, naturalization officer. Twenty-four were slated for examination this afternoon. The form of government, names of the president, past presidents, governor, method of choosing presidents, the capital of the nation and state and the purpose of the constitution were among the questions which Mr. Spears asked the applicants.
September 25
A movement has been started for the parole of Henry Diedrich, 37, Springfield township farmer, who was sentenced to serve one to 14 years in prison in circuit court on Sept. 24, 1923, for stealing 34 chickens from Frank Schrader, a farmer living three miles north of LaPorte.
September 26
(Washington) – A labyrinth of subterranean passages discovered beneath several blocks of Washington’s most exclusive residential section, littered with German newspapers of 1917 and 1918, has revived some of the old war atmosphere in the capital and talk of spies.
September 27
(Houston, Tex.) – With 1,200 persons in quarantine in two suburbs of Houston, health department officials were to decide today whether the quarantine against anthrax was to be continued.
September 29
(Austin, Tex.) – Mrs. Miriam A. “Ma” Ferguson, Democratic nominee for governor of Texas is eligible to hold that office, District Judge George Calhoun ruled here today.
September 30
The Charles E. Russell property at Michigan avenue and Osborn street has been procured for the site of the proposed Protestant hospital, it was announced today by W. W. King, secretary of the Protestant Hospital association.