One Hundred Years Ago — From The Indianapolis News, Tuesday, May 25, 1926: The Indianapolis Park Board has taken the first steps toward converting Brown’s Triangle, northwest corner of Emerson Ave. and Washington St., into a beauty spot and memorial garden. Trees have been trimmed, underbrush cleared away, an outdated transit shelter has been removed, and the grass has been cut. A memorial stone, a granite boulder that once stood at the entrance to the Butler University athletic field, Butler and University avenues, and was known to a generation of students as a meeting spot, has been placed on this site with a bronze plaque imbedded in its surface commemorating the life and death of Lieutenant Hilton U. Brown, Jr. The memorial stone inscription will be unveiled in ceremonies Sunday afternoon under the auspices of the Hilton U. Brown, Jr and Irvington American Legion Posts.
One Hundred Years Ago — From The Indianapolis News, Saturday, May 29, 1926: The Indianapolis city council, in special session today, passed a daylight-saving time ordinance by a vote of 6 to 1 and transmitted it to Mayor John Duvall who has ten days to consider it. Should the mayor sign the ordinance, it would become effective on the first Sunday in June and continue until the last Sunday in October. Thereafter, daylight-saving time would become effective on the first Sunday in May. Republican councilor Otis Bartholomew proposed the ordinance, and Republican councilor Claude Negley cast the only “nay” vote. Petitions with several thousand names supporting the daylight-saving plan were presented to the council and several employers told the council their employees favored it. Dr. William H. Foreman, a former city health board member, said daylight-saving time was “vicious to the health of the community.”