From The Indianapolis News, Tuesday, August 5, 1919: Indianapolis welcomed 150 black soldiers of the 809th Pioneer Infantry back home Monday evening. The soldiers marched from the War Camp Community Club for colored soldiers, Senate Av and North St, along downtown streets, around Monument Place, and through the Victory Arch before attending a celebration at Tomlinson Hall with friends and relatives. Dr. Sumner Furniss, city councilor and chair of the colored citizen’s exec

From The Indianapolis News, Wednesday, May 7, 1919: Glorious Welcome Home Day! A chorus of factory whistles greeted the troop trains bringing soldiers of the 150th Field Artillery and members of Base Hospital No. 32 into Union Station for the long-awaited day celebrating our returning Hoosier heroes. A parade of 20,000 men and women - soldiers, marines, sailors, hospital corps, Red Cross nurses - from every county, led by the caisson in memory of those who died for their c

From The Indianapolis Star, Wednesday, April 30, 1919: A Belgian machine gun detachment will parade through Indianapolis streets tomorrow on behalf of the Victory Loan campaign. The detachment’s seven officers and 110 enlisted men will carry a number of machine guns of the type drawn by the great Flemish dogs in the Belgian and French armies. A display of the machine guns and the large sturdy “Flemish hounds” will be on display on Monument Circle after the parade. The det

From The Indianapolis News, Thursday, April 17, 1919: Pieces of war machinery - heavy guns, thirty-six inch searchlights, ammunition trucks painted in gaudy camouflage, anti-aircraft guns - passed through downtown streets today during the parade of a detachment of coast artillery on tour to promote the Victory Liberty Loan campaign. An airplane from the Speedway circled overhead as onlookers saw great engines of destruction - a 155-millimeter French “Filloux” gun and an eig

From The Indianapolis News, Friday, January 10, 1919: Patriotic decorations hung from buildings in downtown Indianapolis today as cheering thousands lined the parade route to welcome the first gallant sons of Indiana to return from France. The 2,780 soldiers of the 137th and 139th field artillery regiments received a tremendous ovation all along the line of march amid crowds waving flags and welcoming signs. The Merchants Heat & Light Co building on the Circle was decorated

From The Indianapolis News, Tuesday, December 3: Arriving on a special interurban car from Newcastle, IN, Major General Omar Bundy, the Hoosier of the Marne, was greeted by a volley of cheers from a throng of citizens who had gathered at the Traction Terminal Station to see Indiana’s foremost war hero. Mayor Charles Jewett and a reception committee led Gen. Bundy and his party to automobiles and proceeded to the Columbia Club through a great crowd that had quickly assembled

From The Indianapolis News, Monday, November 11: “Let us all stop and celebrate the triumph of our just cause” was Gov. Goodrich’s call to Hoosiers with the announcement in this morning’s headlines, “Germany Surrenders!” By 8:00 a.m. throngs of happy citizens were marching around Monument Circle singing, shouting, and making merry with every noisemaking device available - cans-pans-bells-whistles- horns. Thousands of workers poured out of factories and railroad shops joini

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, Friday, May 24: The week-long War Chest campaign across Indianapolis brought in pledges of $2,281,002 (2017: $ 37,846,583), but far short of its goal. After receiving this report at a noon luncheon, William Fortune, war chest board president, said, “Heroic work must be done between now and Monday night…Let us prove that the people of Indianapolis are united…behind this movement and all that it means to America and the successful prosecution of t