Granger, Indiana · 20th century
1910s
22 dated events in 1910s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 22 dated mentions
1910s
- 1910–2020Migration and the industrial ceiling, counted together — and Granger's different arrival
Gordon's counts frame the first: the city's Black population doubled 1910–1920 and nearly tripled 1920–1922, drawn by wartime industry.
- 1911The system plan whole: the Kessler test run, the master-plan sequence in order, and the horizon year
The City of South Bend's Historic Preservation Commission staff reports state it precisely: "The 1911-1915 Parks and Boulevard system and the Leeper Park Plan, designed by celebrated planner and landscape architect George Kessler," embodied City Beautiful ideals, "connecting parks and boulevards as planned elements of…
- 1911–todayScreenwriters, carried as authors, with the writing credits named
George Seaton (born George Edward Stenius, April 17, 1911, in South Bend; died July 28, 1979), carried by his writing credits as the checklist requires: first major screen credit A Day at the Races (1937); The Song of Bernadette (1943; Academy Award nomination)…
- 1912–1933Photographers With Unfinished Records
Washington Blake opened a studio at 1008 Calhoun in Fort Wayne in 1912 and worked to 1920.
- 1912–1966The imperial door: how a Canadian plant opened Empire trade — and the door this ground never had
First, the Walkerville, Ontario plant (Windsor, 1912–1936 in the record’s dating): complete cars assembled from components shipped from the South Bend and Detroit factories or made locally in Canada, whose output “was designated for the Canadian (left-hand drive) and British Empire (right-hand drive) trade”…
- 1913–1928Before the branch: plates by mail, and the notary's desk
For the first motorists of Harris and Clay townships, there was no branch to go to: Indiana began issuing state license plates in 1913, and the transaction ran by mail.
- 1914–1966Licensed production abroad, distinguished from shipped goods
The Bendix story begins with licensing as an import: in 1924 Vincent Bendix acquired the rights to the French engineer Henri Perrot’s drum-brake patents, and the Eclipse Machine Company of Elmira, New York, had been making Bendix’s patented starters under licence since 1914 before Bendix acquired Eclipse outright in 1929.
- 1914–2026The federation line: federated giving → community chest → United Way — with the Indiana line's own dates printed as the record gives them, conflict and all
The succession, and the conflict inside it: The national succession — federation, community chest, United Fund, United Way — is the shape every local line of this kind followed, and the Indiana corporation's own published tradition claims the line's start here in 1914: its published account states that it has…
- 1917–1918The First World War: the county's roll swept, and the townships not named in it
That does not prove the townships buried no one in 1917–18; it proves the roll cannot show it, because a Harris Prairie farmer's son who enlisted at South Bend stands in the book as a South Bend clerk or a South Bend farmer.
- 1917–1918The county answers: mobilization, the Council of Defense pattern, and the draft that never sat in the townships
The machine, as Indiana built it: When the nation went to war in April 1917, Indiana answered through a council system.
- 1917–1918The county answers: mobilization, the Council of Defense system, registration and the draft boards at home
The first spring, in the county's own paper: the United States declared war on 6 April 1917, and the South Bend News-Times of Sunday 15 April 1917 already shows a county mobilizing on every page the OCR preserves: 25,000 Red Cross membership pledge cards going out through the churches for a three-day campaign for…
- 1917–1919The loans, drive by drive — as far as the official record splits them
The drives that stay gapped: The First Loan (1917), the Second Loan (fall 1917) and the Victory Loan (1919) could not be closed for St. Joseph County from the parts of Greenough's record reached by this section, and no township quota or result for any of the five drives — the figures the banked paragraph most wanted…
- 1917–1919Thrift, the Red Cross, and the women's registration — the counted purses at the strength they survive
The women's registration — the counted pattern and the county's missing count: Indiana's women registered for war service in the spring of 1917 under the Woman's Franchise League's drive, Grace Julian Clarke supervising the processing of the registration cards, and the system grew teeth in October 1917 with the…
- 1917–1919The loans whole, drive by drive: what the state's official history proves, and where the township figures stop
Drive by drive, at the strength Greenough and the press together reach for this county: First Liberty Loan (May–June 1917; state quota as finally announced $40,000,000…
- 1917–1919Thrift, Red Cross and the other purses at counted size; women's registration; food and the fuel winter
The membership campaign of April 1917 opened with 25,000 pledge cards distributed through the churches for a drive for members beginning Thursday 19 April ( News-Times , 15 Apr. 1917; first members named in the paper: Mrs. F. M. Hatch for the women, Dr. George P. Morey for the men).
- 1917–1919Loyalty's edge, the wartime clock, the Armistice, the homecoming, and influenza at the edge
Loyalty's edge, at the strength the open record carries for this county: Indiana's loyalty machinery was state-built: Governor Goodrich's Indiana Liberty Guards…
- 1917–1941War work in cloth: raincoats and clothing lines at the boundary plant; no wartime cloth contract on this ground
For Clay and Harris townships the test is clean and it is a TESTED NEGATIVE: no plant, workshop, contract, subcontract or home-work clothing scheme seated in either township in 1917–18 or 1941–45 appears in the county histories, the record, the company record or the trade record searched.
- 1918–1919Loyalty's edge, the wartime clock, and the Armistice: the war's end as this ground received it
The wartime clock, settled: The time-zone switch the checklist asks for was a war measure in the most literal sense: the Standard Time Act of 1918 (Public Law 65-106, March 19, 1918) imposed the nation's first daylight saving time to serve the war economy…
- 1918–1919Homecomings: the 1919 Welcome Home parade, and the record after
South Bend met the armistice in the streets on November 11, 1918 (South Bend News-Times, that day's issue), and it met the men with a parade the following spring.
- 1918–2023The epidemic century, counted at township strength
Influenza, 1918–1920 — the count that dissolves the townships: the strongest instrument ever pointed at this ground's influenza is the federal government's own special count, the Bureau of the Census's Special Tables of Mortality from Influenza and Pneumonia for Indiana, covering September 1 to December 31, 1918, and…
- 1919The civic leagues as corporations, at county frame
The NAACP's county line begins in a church: the South Bend branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded in 1919 at Mount Zion Baptist Church (later Pilgrim Baptist Church), the city's first African American Baptist congregation, with early meetings also hosted at Olivet AME…
- 1919–1966Institutions built: Hering House, the NAACP branch, and the Allens' thirty years of cases
The South Bend branch of the NAACP was founded in 1919 at Mount Zion Baptist Church — founded 1890 as the city's first African American Baptist church under Rev. W.M. Ridley, first at Main and Jefferson, moved in 1891 to 116 North Birdsell Street, its present sanctuary built on a 1921 foundation and completed 1926…