From The Indianapolis News, Wednesday, September 29, 1920: Irvington will be the center of football followers as record crowds are expected to fill the stands Friday and Saturday afternoons when the Indianapolis football season opens on Irwin Field at Butler College. The first contest pits the Manual Training High School eleven against the Wabash College squad. This will be the first city high school football contest since 1907 and joyous shouts of hundreds of students, teach

From The Indianapolis News, Monday, September 20, 1920: For the fourth time Indianapolis is the host city to the annual national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. The fifty-fourth national encampment opened today with over 60,000 visitors expected to attend the week-long event. By the end of the first day, 10,500 veterans had registered and more than eighty brigade and regimental reunions, along with other meetings of Civil War organizations, are scheduled at vari

From The Indianapolis Times, Saturday, September 11, 1920: Driven to desperation by high rents, exorbitant prices of coal, groceries and other necessities, a number of families are considering living two in the same house this winter. The plan is being considered not only in the less exclusive neighborhoods of the city, but also in classic Irvington and highbrow North Meridian Street. Persons advocating “doubling up” say this is the only effective weapon left to renters battl

From The Indianapolis News, Friday, September 10, 1920: Speakers at the colored Baptist National Convention meeting in Tomlinson Hall condemned mob violence, lynching and general lawlessness. “True democracy can never exist in America as long as men and women are lynched and burned at the stake. America can never criticize others so long as she is unable to protect her own loyal citizens,” declared Rev. Parks of Philadelphia. “Now is the time we must let the world know we are

From The Indianapolis Times, Friday, September 3, 1920: To vote in the November election it is absolutely necessary that you take one of the two opportunities provided to register to vote. Tomorrow is the first of two registration days for voters to register in person in their home precinct from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. It is now too late for voters to register by mail. Women, as well as men, must register. Democratic and Republican state and county parties are completing arrangement