From The Indianapolis Times, Monday, January 29, 1923: Spring isn’t here yet, but marble games are, and that’s a sure sign nice warm weather isn’t very far away. There’s something that gets in a kid’s blood along about this time of year, and there is just one way to get relief; that’s to get out some place, mark off a ring and start a marble game. The boys don’t have to hunt very long for a place to play, for they remember from last year where the best places are - an old

From The Indianapolis News, Friday, January 26, 1923: A resolution condemning the Ku Klux Klan was adopted yesterday by the council of the Indianapolis Protestant Episcopal Church Diocese at its annual meeting. The resolution expressed “strong disapproval and condemnation of the Ku Klux Klan, and all other secret political societies as un-American and as a menace to peace and order, and to social security and wellbeing.” The resolution also deplored and denounced “the appe

From The Indianapolis Times, Wednesday, January 17, 1923: The city dog pound is no more and a whiff of chloroform emanates from the place as ill dogs or those for whom no home could be found are put to death. Former pound master Dr. Elizabeth Conger said it’s an act of kindness to put dogs “to sleep” since the city council failed to pass an appropriation of $5,700 (2020: $88,000) for the upkeep of the pound. During the past year, over 1,300 dogs have been sheltered at the

From The Indianapolis News, Wednesday, January 10, 1923: Mayor Lew Shank proposes acquiring two or more German police dogs, direct from Germany, to do police work in Indianapolis. Dogs could be taught to ascertain at a sniff that a “bootlegger” has a hip flask or to distinguish from afar the peculiar rattling, rolling noise created by a pair of dice thrown on a table. If the dogs are acquired, they would accompany the squads of “night riders” patrolling the city in automob

From The Indianapolis News, Tuesday, January 2, 1923: Indianapolis artist Paul Hadley has drawn the Butler College seal to be used in the decorations of the new Purdue University building. The Purdue Memorial Union requested a copy of the seal. The Butler seal, described in the university bylaws and used many years on official documents, has never been reproduced showing its decorative value. Hadley’s drawing is in the college colors of blue and white on a gold background