‘How Time Flies’ is a daily feature that looks back into the Pantagraph archives and reconsiders what was happening in our communities and regions.
100 years ago
January 30, 1924: Bloomington resident JL Murray was elected to the Illinois Automobile Association Board of Directors at its annual meeting in Chicago. Mr. Murray said he was one of the organizers of the 1905 state association and attended the session as a representative of the McLean County Automobile Club.
January 30, 1949: Regular hygienic milk products, Beatrice Foods (Meadow Gold) and Little Boss milk will be priced 1 cent per quart starting Tuesday, officials from the three companies announced Saturday. With the 1 cent reduction, ungraded milk delivered to home will now cost 20 cents and Grade A milk will cost 21 cents.
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January 30, 1974: Has Normal’s pursuit of an Amtrak station put Bloomington in trouble? That sentiment was felt at a meeting of the Twin Cities’ mayors and city managers convened to discuss the station. The Illinois Department of Transportation is scheduled to release the report today.
25 years ago
January 30, 1999: Students at Chenoa Grade School spent weeks creating dinosaur projects, from shell “fossils” stamped into clay to a large painting of a pterodactyl and a cardboard brontosaurus that reached the ceiling of a second-grade classroom. . So when a piece of a real dinosaur claw came to town, brought by visiting paleontologist Gabriel Ryan at the University of Chicago, students were thrilled.
Edited by pantograph staff