Article Archives: 100 Years Ago

100 Years Ago This Week: March 16-22

March 15, 2018 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Monday, March 18: Bids will be taken next month in the office of architects R. F. Daggett & Co, 956 Lemcke Annex, 115 N. Pennsylvania, by the board of trustees of Indiana University for the construction of a building for the Indiana School of Medicine on … Read More

100 Years Ago: March 9-15

March 8, 2018 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Monday, March 11: Carrying concealed weapons is one of the most dangerous practices with which the public has to contend, says George Coffin, chief of police. Under his instructions, police have arrested forty-one persons in the past two months each of whom was found to be … Read More

100 Years Ago: March 2-8

March 1, 2018 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Friday, March 8: While discussing plans to develop the remaining eight acres of Greenlawn Cemetery into a park, members of the board of park commissioners learned yesterday that some Confederate graves had been forgotten. An 1894 ordinance instructed the board of public works and the board … Read More

100 Years Ago This Week: Feb. 23-March 1

February 22, 2018 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Saturday, February 23: The first Girl Scout Troop in Indianapolis has been organized in Irvington by twenty girls between the ages of ten and eighteen. The new troop is officially designated Red Clover Troop No. 1, and (Mrs. Gilbert) Anna Ridge, 23 Johnson Av, is the … Read More

200 Years Ago: Feb. 16-22

February 15, 2018 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Thursday, February 21: Jacob Dorsey Forrest, general manager of the Citizens Gas Co, notified city officials today “that every public and private consideration at this time warrants the complete suspension of gas main extensions.” Although franchise requirements for extensions amount to 35,840 feet per year, during … Read More