Butler Campus Has Festive Appearance

From The Indianapolis News, Saturday, October 17, 1925:  Butler College campus had a festive appearance today for home-coming celebrations.  Fraternity and sorority houses were decorated in blue and white and Irwin Field, scene of the football contest between Franklin College and the Bulldogs was bedecked with colors of both schools.  For the first time in recent years, no downtown parade was planned on home-coming day.  The alumni met in the chapel and then went in a body to the athletic field where a special section had been reserved in the center of the east bleachers.  The “howling hundred” student cheering unit rooted during the game and stunts were performed between halves.  Campus organizations held smokers and mixers in their house after the game.  An evening dance at the Irvington Lodge ended the day’s events.  There wasn’t a bonfire this year.

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“Butler Campus Has Festive Appearance,” The Indianapolis News, 17 October 1925, p. 27:8

Bringing Magicland to Hospital Tots

From The Indianapolis Star, Friday, October 16, 1925:  Yesterday afternoon the small patients at Riley Hospital were mystified by the magic of Houdini.  In two sessions, one for girls and one of boys, Houdini had each audience laughing and gazing in wide-eyed wonder when the little yellow rabbit came out of an empty box and the glass filled with inky black water turned crystal clear under the magic handkerchief.  Houdini showed where the magic egg went when it vanished from the little bag and how he did other mysterious tricks, but he didn’t reveal the magic word because that would make them as much a magician as he was.  One thing that didn’t vanish was the empty magic pan.  When Houdini put on the lid, and then lifted it, there was the biggest heap of candy one could wish for.   

“Bringing Magicland to Hospital Tots,” The Indianapolis Star, 16 October 1925, p. 11:2

Stephenson and Aids Indicted in Arson Plot

From The Indianapolis Times, Monday, October 5, 1925:  D. C. Stephenson, Earl Gentry, and Earl Klinck, whose trial for the alleged murder of Madge Oberholtzer is to begin next Monday at Noblesville, have been indicted together with Fred Butler by a Marion County grand jury for arson in conspiring to burn Stephenson’s Irvington home, 5432 University Av, last April 17.  Allegedly the conspirators “willfully and maliciously set fire” to Stephenson’s house valued at $20,000 (2024:  $365,314), insured by the Great American Insurance Co, resulting in damage of $3,500 (2024:  $63,930).  A neighbor, Helene Hibben, heard a loud explosion at 1 a.m. and called the fire department.  A six-gallon can of gasoline exploded in the dining room, shooting flames throughout the main floor; several other gasoline containers were found scattered around the house and gas jets on the stove turned on

“Stephenson and Aids Indicted in Arson Plot,” The Indianapolis Times, 5 October 1925, p. 1:7