Article Archives: 100 Years Ago

100 Years Ago This Week: March 15-21

March 14, 2019 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Monday, March 17, 1919: The morning rain ceased and the clouds broke as the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade stepped off at Michigan and Meridian Streets and proceeded south to Monument Circle with soldiers and sailors of Irish heritage, commanded by Lieut. Hilliard Francis, in the … Read More

100 Years Ago This Week: March 8-14

March 7, 2019 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Monday, March 10, 1919: The Indianapolis Automobile Trade Association will hold its eighteenth annual show this week. Since no building in the city is large enough to hold the exhibition, the display will be held in salesrooms along the “Motor Rows” – Capitol Avenue, Meridian, Pennsylvania … Read More

100 Years Ago: March 1-7

February 28, 2019 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Monday, March 3, 1919: New building and construction work in Indianapolis during the coming year is estimated at $5,040,000 (2018: $74,1627,729). Forty percent of the construction money will go to city projects that include schools, the first unit of the sewage disposal plant, and street and … Read More

100 Years Ago This Week: Feb. 22-28

February 21, 2019 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Monday, February 24, 1919: The airplane was used today for the first time to transport a prisoner. Dayton, Ohio police inspector Seymour Yendes arrived in Indianapolis at noon aboard a Wright Airplane Co aircraft to get Robert Tamplin, accused of stealing $50 (2017: $736) from a … Read More

100 Years Ago: Feb. 15-21

February 14, 2019 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Saturday, February 15, 1919: It was announced today by George Coffin, chief of police, that a school for instructing members of the Indianapolis police department in up-to date methods will open next week. The school, to be conducted twice a week, will enable police officers to … Read More