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THIS WEEK IN INDIANAPOLIS
1924
news stories & adverts from one hundred years ago
Compiled by Steve Barnett
Ads & Illustrations clipped by Carl Bates
Sep 30, 2018
Permits Issued for Barracks
From The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, September 30: Permits were taken out yesterday for the construction of four buildings to house the...


Sep 29, 2018
Phone Merger Undetermined
From The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, September 29: Negotiations toward unifying the two Indianapolis telephone companies have begun in...


Sep 27, 2018
Protective Steps Taken by Mayor
From The Indianapolis News, Friday, September 27: Mayor Charles Jewett has taken steps to prevent a Spanish influenza epidemic in...
Sep 23, 2018
Rusty, Battered Guns of Huns on Exhibition
From The Indianapolis News, Monday, September 23: Crowds swarmed over University Park today to see relics from the battlefields of...


Sep 19, 2018
Colored Hospital Not Quite Up to Mark, but Is Held Worthy
From The Indianapolis Star, Thursday, September 18: The New York Bureau of Municipal Research, after an exhaustive survey, concludes the...


Sep 15, 2018
148,900 Listed in 19-37 Class
From The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, September 15: Major Robert Baltzell, Indiana conscription officer, estimates 148,900 men, ages 19 to...
Sep 11, 2018
Seeing World is Made Easy
From The Indianapolis Star, Wednesday, September 11: The Indianapolis Star will publish each Sunday a series of travel articles...
Sep 10, 2018
German Paint Found in School Supplies
From The Indianapolis Star, Tuesday, September 10: A number of North Side parents noticed that the cakes of water color paints from the...


Sep 6, 2018
Changes Are Made in Auto Parking Rules
From The Indianapolis News, Friday, September 6: The Indianapolis public safety board today announced changes to the recent plans for...


Sep 2, 2018
Autoless Sunday is Generally Observed
From The Indianapolis News, Monday, September 2: Few pleasure cars were on the streets of Indianapolis Sunday as the city observed the...
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