From The Indianapolis Times, Tuesday, October 31, 1922: This afternoon the traffic signal control system in the tower east of Meridian in Washington St was tested for its debut tomorrow. Traffic officer George Cox, a ten-year police department veteran, flashed a green light, giving east and west traffic the right of way, an amber light meaning “go” for north south traffic, and a red light compelling all traffic to stop while street cars turned into or out of the traffic. M

From The Indianapolis News, Friday, October 20, 1922: Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the Indianapolis board of health, is convinced that enough impurities reach the lungs of the city’s citizens from smoky air to have some effect on the public’s health. He said that all autopsies performed in the city show that instead of the lungs being a light pink, the normal color, they are a sort of murky hue, a shade similar to the smoky fog that hangs over Indianapolis. Because

From The Indianapolis News, Wednesday, October 11, 1922: No more women will be appointed to the Indianapolis police department during his administration, Mayor Lew Shank announced today. “The police department is no place for a woman. We can’t use them in patrolling districts and there are more of them in juvenile court now than are needed,” he said. In his campaign last year, Shank criticized the work of the women’s division of the police department. There are now twent