Lady Traffic Cops 'Do Stuff' Midst Crowd and Smart Cracks

From The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, November 11, 1923:  Lady traffic cops took to the corner of Meridian and Washington Street yesterday as a fitting climax to “No Accident Week” demonstrating once more that the weaker sex is edging into pastures heretofore reserved to men.  The accident prevention bureau, aided by the traffic squad, recruited four lady drivers of high-powered motor cars for traffic duty to thus have a finer understanding of the sorrows, trial, difficulties, worries, and narrow escapes of traffic cops.  Outfitted in distinctive police breeches, cap, and coat with a star properly affixed, the ladies put on white kid gloves and after a brief lesson on the traffic tower lights and the number of whistle toots, took a position at the downtown intersection, pushing back jaywalkers while coaches, trucks and flivvers awaited the wave of the white glove.    

“Lady Traffic Cops ’Do Stuff’ Midst Crowd and Smart Cracks,” The Indianapolis Star, 9 November 1923, p. 12:3

Ex-Grand Dragon Buys Home Here

From The Indianapolis Star, Friday, November 9, 1923: D. C. Stephenson, known as “Steve” or the “Old Man,” who recently resigned as Ku Klux Klan grand dragon for Indiana and Ohio due to ill health brought on by overwork on behalf of the Klan, has purchased a home in Irvington located on University Av near Downey Av. The house is currently being remodeled and he will move into it sometime this winter. It has also become known that Stephenson had leased office space downtown in the Kresge Building where he plans on entering the coal business. Before devoting his time to the Ku Klux Klan, Stephenson was in the coal business in Evansville, Indiana. It is understood that the former grand dragon will use Indianapolis as a headquarters for a system of coal distribution from mines direct to the consumer.

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"Ex-Grand Dragon Buys Home Here,” The Indianapolis Star, 9 November 1923, p. 12:3

Goblins, Black Cats and Fun-Seekers Rule Tonight

From The Indianapolis Times, Wednesday, October 31, 1923: Tonight, goblins, black cats, ghosts, witches, and fun-seekers will rule for it is Halloween. Youngsters will don masquerade costumes and funny faces and make their merry rounds. In the days leading up to Halloween, junior high teachers and students in many schools talked over vandalism versus innocent pranks and while the mysterious creatures that make All Hallows Eve terrifying will take full advantage of their privileges, Police Chief Herman Rikhoff intends that there will be no vandalism. A squad of police have already been busy last night touring the city and breaking up crowds of boys playing Halloween pranks. However, as night falls, porches will be well-lighted, porch furniture will have been taken inside and buckets of water will be handy for not all ghost and goblins will abide by the rules.

“Goblins, Black Cats and Fun-Seekers Rule Tonight,” The Indianapolis Times, 31 October 1923, p. 1:1

Picture clipped from The Indianapolis Times, 30 October 1923, p. 1