Osceola, Indiana · 20th century
1920s
14 dated events in 1920s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 14 dated mentions
1920s
- 1921The custom trades: names from the 1921 directory; the count itself a named gap
The row asks for the custom trades counted at a dated directory — milliners, dressmakers, and tailors at the 1921 pattern.
- 1921–1956The clothiers' courses, 1921–1956: one snapshot dug, the succession a named gap
The succession the row asks for — who sold dress in each era from 1921 to 1956, and what replaced them — stands dug at its first snapshot only.
- 1921–2010Preservation as repair, one case whole: the Natatorium
Boundary — the pattern case, told whole because the checklist's repair pattern is this building; the building's other life, as the county's segregation battleground, is told in the Black History addendum (art-68-7) and the two tellings cross-point: the Engman Public Natatorium was built in 1921–22 by the South Bend…
- 1922–1925The Klan era on this ground: the threat, the guarded church, and the letter that was not reached
The Tribune's front page of 17 December 1922 carried the warning as a headline: "Threat of Ku Klux Grows."
- 1922–1950Exclusion measured in years: the pool timed both ways, and the Kale test case
Boundary — the Natatorium, timed both ways as the row directs (the building's preservation record is told in the Heritage addendum, art-66-8; this is its other life): the Engman Public Natatorium opened in 1922 as the city's public pool and barred Black residents entirely from 1922 to 1936 — fourteen years locked out.
- 1922–2009The community's own scholarship: the Rev. Buford F. Gordon's study of itself
Boundary — the study the community wrote of itself, cited as a source because this build cites it as one: the Reverend Buford F. Gordon, pastor of Taylor A.M.E. Zion Church from December 1920, published The Negro in South Bend: A Social Study himself in 1922…
- 1922–2026Redlining in writing: the HOLC survey, the covenanted plats, and this ground's own test
The county's covenants, counted: the Reparatory Justice Commission's housing subcommittee counted 68 St. Joseph County plats filed between 1922 and 1953 carrying racially restrictive covenants — the busiest filing year was 1947, and twelve covenant plats were approved even after Shelley v.
- 1923–2021Don M. Newman: the pharmacist of Osceola ground who sat under the Secretary — DF-1 resolved
The man, whole: Don Molvin Newman was born 31 July 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of a pharmacist, and raised in the South Bend area.
- 1924–1945The founder who lost his company: Vincent Bendix, printed as a loss
Vincent Bendix founded his corporation in South Bend in 1924, on the strength of the Bendix drive starter patent (filed 2 May 1914) and the Perrot brake patents he acquired that year; General Motors bought a 24 percent interest the same year, to watch aviation developments, not to run the firm.
- 1924–1986Memorials by war and by institution
The door: the University of Notre Dame's World War I Memorial Door — the east entrance of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, carved “God, Country, Notre Dame” — was dedicated on Memorial Day, 30 May 1924, honouring Notre Dame men who died in or as a result of the Great War…
- 1924–todayThe conservation clubs: the county's Izaak Walton chapter at full size, the rest at pointer
The chapter at full size, as the checklist orders — and its seat is the county seat: the St. Joseph County Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America, founded in January 1924, two years after the national league's 1922 founding, is one of the league's oldest chapters on its own account.
- 1928–1929The sound pioneer: sound came to this town's picture-goers in other cities' rooms
For the county frame, the Colfax Theater in South Bend opened 4 August 1928 hailed by local newspapers as the first theater in the United States — "and thereby in the world"…
- 1929The licensing beats: the driver's license comes to Penn Township
The vehicle was licensed a generation before the driver was: Indiana's first law governing the licensing of drivers is the Act of March 13, 1929, chapter 162…
- 1929–1938The flagship field whole: purchase, opening, county purchase
In 1929 Vincent Hugo Bendix, founder of the Bendix Aviation Corporation, bought 610 acres northwest of South Bend for an airfield closer to the city than the Granger field.