South Bend Tribune history

The young Miller had started his career as a boy, learning to set type and carrying a route for the Tribune at age 12 in 1880, earning a 13 cent profit on the first day.

He had graduated from South Bend High School in 1887 and on July 3 of that year joined his father's editorial staff.

F.A. Miller served as editor and publisher of The Tribune from 1892 until his death at age 86 on Nov.

The table was set, and these youngsters who sold papers for the South Bend Tribune were lined up for dinnertime at Hudson Lake on August 25, 1908.

In April 1921, The Tribune moved to a newly built headquarters at 225 W. Colfax Ave. (the newspaper's fourth location since its founding), a building that would be expanded several times and serve as the newspaper's home base for 98 years.

In May 1923, Kahn wrote a bylined, multi-part series about the "fast lives boys and girls of high school age are leading in South Bend" based on interviews with dozens of local youths.

Miller worked closely with Crockett, his father's original partner, until Crockett's death on June 3, 1924 at age 79.

His uncle, F.A. Miller, convinced Schurz to join the Tribune in 1925.

Miller received an honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1950.

He was instrumental in moving the company into television with WSBT-TV, the nation’s oldest UHF station, which first broadcast on December 21, 1952.

When F.A. Miller died in 1954, his nephew, Franklin D. Schurz Sr., became The Tribune's publisher.

In December 1963, Tribune reporter Jack Colwell broke the story that the Studebaker Corp. auto company would shut down its factory in South Bend that month.

Unless a Republican candidate was an atrocious choice, or tied to an organization that Miller found obnoxious, such as the Ku Klux Klan, he could count upon The Tribune's endorsement," The Tribune reported of Miller in its March 9, 1972 centennial edition.