From The Indianapolis Star, Monday, March 18: Bids will be taken next month in the office of architects R. F. Daggett & Co, 956 Lemcke Annex, 115 N. Pennsylvania, by the board of trustees of Indiana University for the construction of a building for the Indiana School of Medicine on a site east of Robert W. Long Hospital. The $400,000 (2017: $6,636,835) facility will replace the present medical school building west of the State House, which has long been recognized as inade

From The Indianapolis News, Thursday, January 31: Indianapolis likely will have 500 new cases of smallpox next month if the power of compulsory vaccination is not given to the board of public health by the city council within the next few days, according to Dr. Henry Morgan, board of health secretary. “The 280 cases of this pestilence last month is more smallpox than should have occurred in fifty years, and is conclusive evidence that some citizens are either unwilling or d

From The Indianapolis News, Thursday, January 10: Boozeless dance halls will be in vogue in Indianapolis in the future after Chief of Police George V. Coffin made good his word to deny a police permit to dance halls connected to barrooms. Yesterday, saloon keeper John L. Donavan failed to get a permit at police headquarters for a dance to be held Wednesday night when he was told he could not have a permit if he intended to serve intoxicating liquor. Donavan’s notorious dan

From The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, December 2: The liberal purchase of Red Cross Christmas Seals was encouraged by Dr. George Thomas Palmer, president of the Illinois Tuberculosis Association, in an appeal for help made at the Chamber of Commerce Saturday Lunch to solve the problem presented by tuberculous soldiers who will be returning from France in large numbers either in the course of the war or at war’s end. The latent tuberculosis that large numbers of American soldi