What happened this week in Springfield 100 years ago

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Springfield’s historical narrative traces back to the early 1800s, intricately weaving a collection of significant events that span two centuries.

Here's an exploration of intriguing headlines and stories from this week, but with a twist – they’re from a century ago, meticulously preserved by the History Museum on the Square.

January 1925

• Superintendent of Schools, H.P. Study gives a speech praising R. Ritchie Robertson and the Boy Scout Band for their activities at school and across the midwest.
  • Springfield's Boy Scout Band would become the largest Boy Scout band ever.
• Due to many requests from students and others, the library has published a short written history of its development from the $50,000 from the Carnegie Foundation to today.
• Charles Sansome to manage the Colonial Hotel.
• Fred Harvey III had breakfast at the Harvey House Diner at the Frisco Depot in Springfield
• Harvey was on the road touring all of the Harvey House facilities along the line.

Now showing in 1925

The Electric - The Silent Watcher

Joe Roberts is devoted to his wife, Mary, and fiercely loyal to United States Senate candidate John Steele, by whom he is employed as secretary. Mary does not share her husband's enthusiasm for Steele and believes Joe false to her when actress Lily Elliott dies in an apartment rented in Joe's name. Even under the charge of murder and a police "third degree" Joe does not reveal that Lily's affair was with Steele, an unhappily married man; he remains silent in the mistaken belief that Barnes, Steele's campaign manager, has told Mary the truth. When Joe is finally released, Mary is gone, but Steele learns of the situation after he is elected and then reunites the couple.

Jefferson - Princess Theatre - True as Steel

Frank Parry, a prosperous middle-aged manufacturer, takes a business trip to New York, where he becomes infatuated with Eva Boutelle, manager of the Swansea Cotton Mills. For a time, their affair develops, but Eva remains true to her husband and rejects Frank's suggestion that they divorce their spouses and marry each other. Frank returns home; receives his wife's forgiveness; and finds that his daughter, Ethel, is determined to enter the business world.