With war with the Axis Powers looming, Bremen decided in 1940 to celebrate Independence Day properly for the first time since 1910: with a show of fireworks, bands, and more. Click the image to display a larger version. Fireworks could... Continue Reading →
From way back in 1888, a tale of woe to a gang of small boys who only wanted to make a little candy money selling rags to the Dietrich department store but ran afoul of the long arm of the... Continue Reading →
Hands Across America was a national event that benefited USA for Africa and local homeless charities. At 3 PM Eastern time on May 25, 1986—30 years ago today—6.5 million people held hands in a (sort of) continuous line from coast... Continue Reading →
At the turn of the 20th century—back when the game was spelled "base-ball" and the word "fans" was printed in quotation marks to show it was just slang—Bremen fielded multiple fine baseball teams that played all over Michiana. Their names,... Continue Reading →
There is a barely a mention of Easter in the early days of the Bremen Enquirer. It appears to have been a quiet, religious affair. But even the earliest mention of activities other than the bare fact of observance is,... Continue Reading →
John J Wright's Opera House occupied the second floor of the building above Wright's Store (today's Panda Garden). It opened in the early 1880s (before the Enquirer was around to document it) and hosted the first real Bremen High School... Continue Reading →
Tomorrow is February 29: leap day. It used to be a common tradition in America that gals could propose marriage to the feller of their choice in a leap year. In late 1895, the Enquirer cautioned that the upcoming year... Continue Reading →
Newspapers subscribe to other newspapers and pick up the more interesting articles to re-run them. If the story is particularly interesting, a story re-run by one paper gets picked up by another that subscribes to that one. Here's one from... Continue Reading →
130 years ago this past week, Brook Bowman put out the first issue of the Bremen Enquirer. In his second issue, Nov 28, 1885, Bowman ran this review from the Plymouth Republican. Click the image to display a larger version.
The powers that be are in the process of digitizing the Bremen Enquirer and making it available online. Hoosiers can access it—and many other Indiana newspapers—for free via Inspire, a collaboration with the Indiana State Library and their Hoosier State... Continue Reading →
Baseball was not just the national pastime in the early 20th century but the pastime for most Bremen residents as well. The little town had at least three teams, sometimes simultaneously—the Greens, the Blacks, and the Grays—who drew fans well... Continue Reading →
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