Article Archives: 100 Years Ago

100 Years Ago: April 6-12

April 5, 2018 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Saturday, April 6: Based on a report that White River is being polluted by sewage from Indianapolis, the city’s board of sanitary commissioners yesterday adopted resolutions providing for the building of a sewage disposal plant southwest of the city on the 184 acre Sellers farm at … Read More

100 Years Ago: March 30-April 5

March 29, 2018 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Wednesday, April 3: Indiana is Dry! At the stroke of midnight last night 3,520 bars in Indiana, including 547 bars in Indianapolis, closed in accordance with the law enacted by the 1917 state legislature prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicants. There was little hilarity in … Read More

100 Years Ago This Week: March 23-29

March 22, 2018 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Monday, March 25: Permanent public improvements have played a great part in the development and growth of Indianapolis as a city of homes. The elevation of the Belt Railroad, improvements at Ellenberger Park, the construction of Pleasant Run Boulevard, and the extension of the East Michigan … Read More

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