Broadcasting Station to Be Opened Tuesday

From The Indianapolis News, Thursday, October 30, 1924:  Indianapolis residents will be able to listen to the broadcasting of Indiana and national election returns next Tuesday evening over the new radio station WFBM.  The Merchants Heat & Light Co received a Class A broadcasting license yesterday from the U. S. Department of Commerce that provides for the operation of a 250-watt station on South Harding St which will primarily relay programs sent out by higher-powered stations such as Westinghouse station KDKA in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  WFBM was established to give the several thousand owners in Indiana of small crystal receiving sets the advantage of getting programs from larger distant stations.  C. A. Portman will operate the station.  Radio listeners in the city have been without a local broadcasting station since WHO and WLK ceased operations more than a year ago.

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“Broadcasting Station to Be Opened Tuesday,” The Indianapolis News, 30 October 1924, p. 14:1

Indirect Registrants Told to Make Sure

From The Indianapolis News, Tuesday, September 30, 1924:  Marion County voter registration officials pointed out as a matter of precaution all persons who have filled out registration applications with party workers should go to the precinct registration places Monday and make sure they are registered.  Sometimes either through carelessness or intentionally, applications completed before party workers fail to reach the registration board.  As a result, persons who thought they had registered discovered later they were not on the rolls and were deprived the right to vote.  The first registration day, September 6, was the second highest in the history of the registration law.  Precinct reports showed 80,218 men and women qualified to vote in the November election, 44,820 men and 35,938 women.  One feature of the first registration was that women displayed an interest almost equal to that of men.

“Indirect Registrants Told to Make Sure,” The Indianapolis News, 30 September 1924, p. 1:2

Remy to Bring Suit to Close Garden Resort

From The Indianapolis Times, Monday, September 22, 1924:  Early Sunday morning, federal prohibition agents and Marion County sheriff deputies swooped down on Jack-O’-Lantern Gardens, a pleasure resort at 54th St and Shadeland Dr.  Wild panic ensued among society women, college lads and lasses, and others of the merry crowd, leaving 126 empty gin and whisky bottles in their flight to be gathered as “evidence” by the officers.  Many people found under the influence were boys and girls of well-known Indianapolis families, very young college students, and others not so prominent.  Carlos Hammond, proprietor, protested he had warned guests not to bring liquor with them.  “If the gardens are not closed, I intend to place deputies there to arrest everyone found with liquor on him regardless of who he is or what his or her papa does,” said Sheriff George Snider.

“Remy to Bring Suit to Close Garden Resort,” The Indianapolis Times, 22 September 1924, p. 2:4