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THIS WEEK IN INDIANAPOLIS
1925
news stories & adverts from one hundred years ago
Compiled by Steve Barnett
Ads & Illustrations clipped by Carl Bates
Home Brews Harmful
From The Indianapolis Star, Wednesday, July 23, 1919: Albert Lieber, president of the Indianapolis Brewing Co, issued a warning to...
Jul 23, 2019
Prohibition is Mother of Many Substitutes
From The Indianapolis News, Saturday, April 5, 1919: Since last April when prohibition came to Indiana, homemade concoctions for the...
Apr 5, 2019
Question Brought Up in License Granting
From The Indianapolis News, Tuesday, August 13: Forty-six federal licenses and only twenty state permits have been issued under the new...
Aug 13, 2018
Former Saloon Men are Now Downhearted
From The Indianapolis News, Friday, June 28: The state supreme court decision declaring Indiana’s prohibition law constitutional has had...
Jun 28, 2018
Commissioners Close County Workhouse
From The Indianapolis News, Friday, May 31: The Marion County Workhouse, 403 W. 21st St, will close tomorrow and the eighteen prisoners...
May 31, 2018
3,520 Bars Quit in Indiana; 547 in Indianapolis
From The Indianapolis Star, Wednesday, April 3: Indiana is Dry! At the stroke of midnight last night 3,520 bars in Indiana, including...
Apr 3, 2018
No 'Booze' at Dance Halls, Coffin Says
From The Indianapolis News, Thursday, January 10: Boozeless dance halls will be in vogue in Indianapolis in the future after Chief of...
Jan 10, 2018
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