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11 NOVEMBER 1918 · TWO DAYS AFTER THE CLOSURE LIFTED
South Bend's Armistice stands in the county seat's file at pointer: the News-Times of 11 November 1918 headlines the city joining "All America in Celebration" — factory whistles tied down for half an hour, the downtown "a seething [mass] of humanity," improvised bands and noisemaking contraptions — a crowd gathered in a city just reopening, its flu shutdown lifted on 9 November, its merchants restive after weeks of standstill. North Liberty's own 11 November 1918 is UNREACHED: no carrier reached prints the town's Armistice — no bell, whistle, or parade here is claimed — and its settler is the North Liberty News for the week of 11 November 1918, if the file survives, named in the note. Homecoming celebrations for the township's men are the veterans file's article (none staged in this town was found; the county's Welcome Home parade of 26 April 1919 is the dated return) and are cross-pointed, not duplicated. Two home-front facts close the file, both standing in the epidemics and loans articles and stated here once: the Fourth Liberty Loan was driven through the closure — the Volunteer Plan canvass and the October drive ran while the county's schools and churches were shut — and the town had a man dead in France before either reached it: Private Edward Z. Sousley, enlisted 4 August 1917, killed 20 July 1918 at Château-Thierry, on the state's Gold Star roll. The home front below him was run by people this section names at county strength and cannot yet name at township strength; that, and not a lesser effort, is the record's true size.
South Bend News-Times, 11 Nov. 1918 (Hoosier State Chronicles copy; OCR degraded, scene at that strength); Indiana History Blog (merchants' restiveness, citing South Bend News-Tribune, 12 Nov. 1918); Gold Star Honor Roll (1921); Veterans.