The South Bend News-Times was a daily newspaper in South Bend , Indiana , in the United States , from 1913 to 1938.
26-717: The News-Times was formed on June 2, 1913, through a merger of the South Bend Times and South Bend News . The Times had been in operation under several names since it was founded in 1881 by Editor Henry A. Peed (1846-1905). Around 1870, Peed, a Civil War veteran, was editing the Martin County Herald in the small southern Indiana town of Dover Hill. After founding the South Bend Times, a Democratic newspaper, he sold out to John B. Stoll and moved to Saline County, Missouri, where he became editor of
52-572: A claymation ad during the 1980s. Jean LaFoote is a fictional pirate character from the Cap'n Crunch breakfast cereal's character set. The character's name is wordplay on that of the historical pirate, Jean Lafitte . In the mid-1970s, he was the primary mascot for Jean LaFoote's Cinnamon Crunch cereal. LaFoote was originally voiced by Bill Scott , followed by Adam Shapiro from 2006 to 2007, and Joe Nipote in The Cap'n Crunch Show in 2013. In
78-430: A " Napoleon -style" hat, and claims that this has led to speculation that he may be French . Cap'n Crunch's original animated television commercials used the slogan, "It's got corn for crunch, oats for punch, and it stays crunchy, even in milk." In 2013, sources including The Wall Street Journal and Washington Times noted that the three stripes on the mascot's uniform indicate a rank of Commander rather than
104-454: A News-Times reporter after graduating from Notre Dame. He was allegedly fired for reporting the fictitious death of a prominent South Bend citizen. Butterworth went on to work as a journalist in Chicago and New York before heading to Hollywood. The paper and its immediate predecessors also helped launch the career of American sports columnist and short-story writer Ring Lardner , who worked for
130-540: A South Bend girl, Betty Robinson, who won the 4th Bee in 1928 . Charles Butterworth (actor) Charles Edward Butterworth (July 26, 1896 – June 14, 1946) was an American actor specializing in comedic roles, often in musicals. His distinctive voice was the inspiration for the Cap'n Crunch commercials created by the Jay Ward studio: Voice actor Daws Butler based Cap'n Crunch on Butterworth's voice. Butterworth
156-640: A dry martini?" from Every Day's a Holiday . In Forsaking All Others , when Clark Gable , quoting Benjamin Franklin , said, "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise," Butterworth replied, "Ever take a good look at a milkman?" Butterworth had a home in Palm Springs, California . He was killed in an automobile accident on June 13, 1946, when he lost control of his car on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. He died en route to
182-475: A limited time—and currently offers a Cap'n Crunch product line . The original Cap'n Crunch cereal was developed to recall a recipe of brown sugar and butter over rice. It was one of the first cereals to use an oil coating to deliver its flavoring, which required an innovative baking process. Grandma would like to make this concoction with rice and the sauce that she had; it was a combination of brown sugar and butter. It tasted good, obviously. They'd put it over
208-553: A technique in the manufacture of Cap'n Crunch, using oil in its recipe as a flavor delivery mechanism—which initially made the cereal difficult to bake properly. Quaker Oats had a marketing plan for Cap'n Crunch, before it had developed the cereal. The product line is heralded by a cartoon mascot named Cap'n Crunch. The character was created by Allan Burns , who became known for co-creating The Munsters and The Mary Tyler Moore Show . The commercials themselves were originally produced by Jay Ward Productions . Cap'n Crunch
234-510: Is depicted as a late 18th-century naval captain , an elderly gentleman with white eyebrows and a white moustache, who wears a Revolutionary -style naval uniform : a bicorne hat emblazoned with a "C" and a gold-epauletted blue coat with gold bars on the sleeves. While typically an American naval captain wears four bars on his sleeves, the mascot has been variously depicted over the years wearing only one bar ( ensign ), two bars ( lieutenant ), or three bars ( commander ). As of May 26, 2024, he
260-510: Is now depicted on cereal boxes with the four bars of a naval captain. Voice actor Daws Butler created Cap'n Crunch's voice, basing it on that of Hollywood and radio character actor Charles Butterworth . Animated television commercials featured the adventures of Cap'n Crunch commanding the "good ship" Guppy on its sea voyages accompanied by his canine first mate Seadog and loyal crew of sailor children named Alfie, Dave, Brunhilde, and Carlyle. Jean LaFoote, "The Barefoot Pirate", often attacked
286-653: The Great Depression of 1930s, it was operating at a loss, and stopped publishing late 1938. Although it reached the peak of its circulation in 1937, the News-Times was haunted by financial difficulties and went out of business on December 27, 1938. The last issue included a note from Stephenson stating that it had been published at a loss since 1931. The paper was an early sponsors of the Scripps National Spelling Bee , and sponsored
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#1732782423054312-562: The Guppy in order to steal its cargo of Cap'n Crunch cereal. According to The Wall Street Journal (2013), the character, Horatio Magellan Crunch, captains a ship called the Guppy , and was born on Crunch Island, a magical island in the Sea of Milk—with talking trees, crazy creatures and a mountain (Mt. Crunchmore) made out of Cap'n Crunch cereal." The article refers to the Captain's bicorne as
338-706: The 1890s, Summers entered the pharmaceutical business, eventually heading the Vanderhoof Medicine Company. He served as Indiana state senator and was a prominent South Bend businessman. Reportedly a millionaire from his pharmaceutical investments, Summers died in August 1920. His son-in-law, 23-year-old Joseph M. Stephenson, took over as owner of the News-Times. Along with Stephenson, the newspaper's editors included John H. Zuver, Boyd Gurley, Sidney B. Whipple, McCready Huston, and Fred Mills. American comedic actor Charles Butterworth (1896-1946) worked as
364-559: The 1960s Cap'n Crunch cereal boxes came with whistles which coincidentally had the specific frequency ( 2600 hertz ) required to exploit a vulnerability of in-band signaling enabling a phone to make free calls by entering an 'operator mode'. This was discovered by John Draper . Author Philip Wylie wrote a series of short stories, Crunch and Des , beginning in the 1940s, which featured a similarly named but otherwise unrelated character, Captain Crunch Adams. Vinton Studios produced
390-531: The 1980s, the Captain's main adversaries were the Soggies , strange alien creatures resembling blobs of milk, whose goal was to make everything on Earth soggy. The only thing that was immune was Cap'n Crunch cereal, and many ads revolved around their attempts to "soggify" the cereal and everything else, to no avail. Their leader, Squish the Sogmaster (voiced by Dick Gautier ), was a large mechanical creature (with
416-1076: The South Bend Daily Times in 1883. A historian of the Indiana Democratic Party and of St. Joseph County, Stoll eventually sold the Times to the News-Times Printing Company in August 1911. The new company was headed by Gabriel R. Summers, who also published the South Bend News from 1908 until it merged with the Times. Summers was born in 1857 in New Carlisle, Indiana, and graduated from the University of Notre Dame at age 16. The son of an Irish farmer, he went into farming and sold agricultural implements in South Bend and Walkerton. In
442-551: The Sweet Springs Herald . John Stoll (1843-1926) emigrated from Württemberg, Germany, in 1853, settling in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Speaking only German and soon orphaned, Stoll worked as a street peddler until he met Margaret Brua Cameron, wife of General Simon Cameron, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and later Abraham Lincoln's War Secretary. The Camerons helped Stoll pursue the printer's trade. (Cameron himself
468-566: The cereal a quality she called "want-more-ishness". After her death in 2007, The Boston Globe called Low "the mother of Cap'n Crunch". At Arthur D. Little, Low had also worked on the flavors for Heath , Mounds and Almond Joy candy bars. In 1965, the Quaker Oats Company awarded the Fredus N. Peters Award to Robert Rountree Reinhart Sr. for his leadership in directing the development team of Cap'n Crunch. Reinhart developed
494-559: The city had numerous papers in Hungarian and Polish for many years. As early as 1914, the News-Times carried a special column, "News of Interest to Polish Citizens." (Many of South Bend's Hungarians and Poles worked in the auto and carriage industry, the city being home to the Studebaker and Oliver factories.) The South Bend News-Times originally published twice a day and changed to once a day in 1927. Though its circulation grew during
520-568: The earlier South Bend Times, and author J.P. McEvoy , best known as the creator of the Dixie Dugan comic strip, popular in the 1930s and '40s. The News-Times enjoyed a "high-spirited competition" with its rival, the South Bend Tribune, a Republican newspaper, as the two papers tried to outdo each other in local news coverage. The News-Times was popular with South Bend's large Eastern European community, remarkable considering that
546-581: The four that denote the rank of Captain. In jest, The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Navy had no record of Crunch and that the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) was investigating him for impersonating a naval officer. Daws Butler provided the original voice of the Cap'n until his death in 1988. From 1991 to 2007, George J. Adams voiced him, followed by John Gegenhuber in The Cap'n Crunch Show in 2013, and Mike Stoudt from 2021 to 2023. In
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#1732782423054572-598: The hospital. For his contributions to the film industry , Butterworth was posthumously inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 with a motion pictures star at 7036 Hollywood Boulevard . Cap%27n Crunch Cap'n Crunch is a corn and oat breakfast cereal manufactured since 1963 by Quaker Oats Company , a subsidiary of PepsiCo since 2001. Since the original product introduction, marketed simply as Cap'n Crunch , Quaker Oats has since introduced numerous flavors and seasonal variations, some for
598-480: The rice and eat it as a kind of a treat on Sundays ... —William Low, Pamela Low's brother Pamela Low , a flavorist at Arthur D. Little , developed the original Cap'n Crunch flavor in 1963—recalling a recipe of a mixture of brown sugar and butter her grandmother Luella Low served over rice at her home in Derry , New Hampshire . Low created the flavor coating for Cap'n Crunch, describing it as giving
624-652: Was generally a supporting actor, though he had top billing in We Went to College (1936) and the title role in Baby Face Harrington (1935), and shared top billing (as the Sultan) with Ann Corio in The Sultan's Daughter (1944). In his obituary, he was described as "characterizing the man who could not make up his mind". He is credited with the quip "Why don't you slip out of those wet clothes and into
650-736: Was orphaned as a child and apprenticed as a printer.) Stoll bought his first newspaper – the Johnstown Independent Observer – at age 17. Moving to Noble County, Indiana, with his wife's family, Stoll helped establish the Ligonier National Banner, a Democratic newspaper. He went on to found the Press Association of Northern Indiana in 1881 and the Times Printing Company of South Bend in 1882, which took over daily printing of
676-703: Was the son of a physician in South Bend, Indiana . He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1924 with a law degree. After graduating, Butterworth became a newspaper reporter at the South Bend News-Times and subsequently Chicago. One of Butterworth's more memorable film roles was in the Irving Berlin musical This Is the Army (1943) as bugle-playing Private Eddie Dibble. He
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