Article Archives: 100 Years Ago

100 Years Ago: Sept. 2-8

September 1, 2022 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Wednesday, September 6, 1922: The Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays met yesterday and the picture committee reported it viewed 120 motion pictures last month, indorsing forty. Blood and Sand, In Her Gilded Cage, and Monte Cristo received special mention and are being shown downtown this week. A … Read More

100 Years Ago: Aug. 26-Sept. 1

August 25, 2022 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Wednesday, August 30, 1922: As a strategic point in the Mid-West in event of a nation-wide railroad strike that interrupts the mail, the United States Post Office is making Indianapolis a distribution center for a large number of postal trucks. Over three hundred three-quarter ton army … Read More

100 Years Ago: Aug. 19-25

August 18, 2022 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Monday, August 21, 1922: Charles Lee, Flanner House superintendent, in his report to the directors said housing is one of the most acute problems confronting colored people in Indianapolis. A survey of housing conditions among white and colored poor families, found nothing among the worst homes … Read More

100 Years Ago: Aug. 12-18

August 11, 2022 | by Steve Nicewanger

From The Indianapolis News, Thursday, August 17, 1922: Nine Indianapolis men attended a meeting yesterday evening at the Denison Hotel under the auspices of the American Unity League, an anti-Ku Klux Klan society headquartered in Chicago. The men pledged to arrange a meeting next week to organize a county chapter … Read More

100 Years Ago: Aug. 5-11

August 4, 2022 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Friday, August 11, 1922: One of the greatest gatherings of swimming stars to assemble in the United States opened the three-day national swimming meet at the Broad Ripple Park pool yesterday with a crowd of spectators filling the grand stand and encircling the west end of … Read More