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MCHS
THIS WEEK IN INDIANAPOLIS
1925
news stories & adverts from one hundred years ago
Compiled by Steve Barnett
Ads & Illustrations clipped by Carl Bates


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 t
4 days ago


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
5 days ago


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 ( 20
Oct 5
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