Article Archives: 100 Years Ago

100 Years Ago: July 14-20

July 13, 2023 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Thursday, July 19, 1923: Last night a crowd estimated at 5,000 surrounding a burning cross in a commons at Miley Av and Vermont St attacked firefighters and police with rocks. The incident began when a group lit an electric cross at New York St and Miley … Read More

100 Years Ago: June 30-July 13

June 29, 2023 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Times, Wednesday, July 4, 1923: Early today, members of the Ku Klux Klan were hissed by a crowd of young men after a special interurban car carrying the Klansmen through Indianapolis to a tri-state celebration in Kokomo stopped at the downtown Terminal Station. Police were called to … Read More

100 Years Ago: June 23-29

June 22, 2023 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Thursday, June 28, 1923: Yesterday’s “Red Letter Day,” sponsored by the East Side Commercial Association, was a great success. Businesses in the area bounded by Emerson Av, Michigan St, Sixteenth St, and the Monon tracks were closed while proprietors gave support to the celebration’s events. Front … Read More

100 Years Ago: June 16-22

June 15, 2023 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Tuesday, June 19, 1923: Last night the Indianapolis city council voted 2 to 6 to defeat a proposed ordinance that would prohibit the wearing of masks in public by anyone except on Halloween. A crowd of nearly 1,000 citizens, mostly made up of members of the … Read More

100 Years Ago: June 9-15

June 8, 2023 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Thursday, June 14, 1923: Last week the Englewood Christian Church board of trustees voted 19 to 10 calling for pastor Rev. Frank E. Davison’s resignation because of his denunciation of a “100 per cent Americanism” mass meeting organized on church property by the “Hustling Hundred,” a … Read More