From The Indianapolis Star, Wednesday, July 2, 1913: Nearly 5,000 store clerks entered downtown streets shortly after 5 p. m. last evening happily enjoying the rule adopted by the majority of stores to close at 5 p. m. weekdays and 6 p.m. Saturdays during July and August. No other city in the country the size of Indianapolis has yet adopted these closing hours because merchants fear a loss of business. To make the plan a success, the public needs to do its shopping early, and in so doing the Indianapolis clerks may enjoy reasonable working hours and have an opportunity for more rest and pleasure in the evening and may assist in liberating hundreds of thousands of employees throughout the United States by example.