Monthly Archives: July 2017

100 Years Ago This Week: July 21-27

July 20, 2017 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Thursday, July 26: Today begins the three day canvass for Sympathy Saturday to raise funds to send sick and weak children to the Summer Mission camp at Fairview Park. This campaign combines into a single appeal under the auspices of the Children’s Aid Association’s Pure Milk … Read More

What Time Is It?

July 20, 2017 | by Rose Mary Clarke

Morning is when I’m awake and there is a dawn in me . . . To be awake is to be alive . . . We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. — Henry David Thoreau, … Read More

World War I 100 Years Ago: July 21-27

July 20, 2017 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Saturday, July 21: The last fated number of the great selective draft lottery was drawn this morning in Washington at 1:18 a.m. Indianapolis time. The national conscript army will consist of 687,000 men, with Indiana’s share being 17,510 men. For those whose numbers were drawn, there … Read More

Make Their Day Special — Vintage Wedding Gifts

July 20, 2017 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

There are few things nicer than receiving an invitation to be a part of that special day when two people vow to become one. An estimated 2.3 million couples will marry this year with over 25 percent of those weddings falling in July and August. Odds are you will be … Read More

Osborn Oldroyd — Keeper of the Lincoln Flame, Part 2

July 20, 2017 | by Al Hunter

Abraham Lincoln collector and self-appointed curator of the Lincoln legend, Osborn Oldroyd, was not the type of man to stay down for long. After being unceremoniously kicked out of the Lincoln home in Springfield, Illinois in 1893, he soon found a new home for his “Lincoln museum”  in Washington, D.C. … Read More