Article Archives: 100 Years Ago

100 Years Ago This Week: Aug. 224-30

August 23, 2018 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Monday, August 26: The 90-acre new Scout camp along Fall Creek, west of Ft. Benjamin Harrison, was formally dedicated on Saturday. Eighty-five Boy Scouts performed stunts – a tug of war; a boxing match; water fights and a game of water polo – before one hundred … Read More

100 Years Ago This Week: Aug. 17-23

August 16, 2018 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Tuesday, August 21: Indianapolis public school officials are anticipating 45,000 children on opening day next month. Superintendent Ellis U. Graff announced that no overcrowding is expected in the coming school year because fifty Indianapolis grade schools will each have an additional classroom available to accommodate students. … Read More

100 Years Ago This Week: Aug. 10-16

August 9, 2018 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Tuesday, August 13: Forty-six federal licenses and only twenty state permits have been issued under the new state prohibition law allowing persons and firms in Indianapolis and Marion County to deal in or possess alcoholic liquors, according to county clerk Theodore Stein, Jr. Only seven names … Read More

100 Years Ago: Aug. 3-9

August 2, 2018 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Wednesday, August 7: The Marion County commissioners will mark all main roads in the county this fall with signs, at intervals, to designate the distance and direction to Indianapolis. Safety rails will be placed on dangerous embankments, and signage will be placed to designate the Marion … Read More

100 Years Ago: July 27-Aug. 2

July 26, 2018 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Tuesday, July 30: The first train, loaded with passengers and express freight, to run on the new elevated west section of the Indianapolis Union Railway pulled away from the Union Station platform promptly at 12:15 p.m. today with more than 100 spectators looking on. Vandalia train … Read More