From The Indianapolis News, Monday, October 7: Clad in olive tinged khaki and carrying shouldered rifles with long bayonets flashing in the sun, a detachment of the French Foreign Legion, led by a mounted police escort and the Indianapolis Newsboys’ Band, marched through Indianapolis downtown streets this afternoon amid the tri-colors of France, the colors of the United States, and the applause of thousands of onlookers along the parade route. Earlier in the day, the legion

From The Indianapolis News, Monday, September 23: Crowds swarmed over University Park today to see relics from the battlefields of France and Flanders that tell the story of the war’s realism and grimness. Trophies - rusty guns, battered and broken shells, aerial bombs and torpedoes, and helmets of the Kaiser’s own guard gathered by the Canadian Expeditionary Force - filled a long platform between Meridian and Pennsylvania Streets. The touring war display, through the kind

From The Indianapolis News, Tuesday, July 30: Indianapolis Mayor Charles Jewett proposed today that a public record be kept showing the supreme and lesser sacrifices being made by the city’s men and women in the successful prosecution of the war. The roll of honor should be placed somewhere in the city’s center and be visible where all can read it. “We want set down in large sized numerals the number of boys who are in the army, the navy, the medical corps, and hospital un

From The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, April 7: The largest parade in Indianapolis history wound through eighteen blocks of the city’s downtown yesterday unleashing a patriotic fervor the likes of which has never before been seen. A pageant of 40,000 men, women and children on foot, in automobiles, and on scores of strikingly decorated floats took over two hours and thirty minutes to pass the reviewing stand at Pennsylvania and Vermont Streets. “Buy Bonds!” was the cry heard

From The Indianapolis News, Tuesday, April 2: Soldiers stationed at the Speedway aviation depot wielded picks and shovels today in the warm spring sun constructing a network of trenches on vacant ground at Ohio and Alabama Streets, opposite City Hall. Indianapolis is not expecting an attack from German troops; the trenches are not to be defensive but are a novel offensive weapon in the third Liberty Loan publicity campaign. The system of zig-zag front line trenches of the