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Remember When March 10

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10 Years Ago
March 10 1988

    The United Telephone Company of Indiana advertising jingle, "Back Home in Indiana," has been selected as a first-place winner in the South Bend ADI (Area of Dominant Influence) Awards.

In addition to being used on radio and television commercials, the words and music to the jingle are also being used on the cover of many United Telephone books.

25 Years Ago
March 10 1973

    Coach Bob Schrader and Warsaw Tiger baseball team are proud owners of a new $900 pitching machine. Some of the pitches this machine can hurl, up to 125 miles per hour, are knuckleballs, sliders and curves.


50 Years Ago
March 10 1948

    Allee Gerard, our town artist wintering in Florida, was scheduled to enter three pictures in the annual Miami Women's Club exhibit. She had only two with her and at the last minute hustled out and painted a landscape of palm trees and streams right in the city. The paint was still wet when it was hung. It was this painting which captured first award for "the best in landscape," much to Allee's amazement.


75 Years Ago
March 10 1923

    The venerable John Catey, Leesburg, now in his 91st year and undoubtedly the most active man in the state at his age, takes exception to an article which appeared in The Times which stated that Marcus Phillipson is the oldest living Mason in the state in number of years of membership - 60. Mr. Catey has been a member of the Masonic order for 61 years.