Monthly Archives: January 2024

100 Years Ago: Jan. 5-11

From The Indianapolis Star, Thursday, January 10, 1923: “I don’t think there’s a place in the American republic for such organizations as this,” District Judge Albert Anderson said in federal court yesterday in ruling on the case of six South Bend citizens who asked for an injunction restraining the Ku … Read More

The Sad Demise of the Last Burger Chef

This column first appeared in December 2016. Recent news that the Burger Chef in Indianapolis that was the scene of a notorious mass murder is to be demolished made me want to pull this from our “Al Archive.” EW A few years ago I wrote an article about the last … Read More