Auto Saleswoman

From The Indianapolis Star, Tuesday, March 4, 1924:  Laura E. Alexander is the only automobile saleswoman in Indianapolis.  She is employed with the North-Overland Co, 3011 Central Av, the city’s oldest distributor of Overland and Willys-Knight cars.  Prior to her affiliation with the North-Overland Co, she sold Overlands and Willys-Knights for the East End Overland Co, 2630 E. Tenth St.  In 1923, Alexander was one of twenty-one finalists in the Indianapolis Star’s Women’s Safety Driving Contest.  Contestants, competing for $100 cash prizes, drove any automobile of her choosing over a prescribed route through the business section of Indianapolis accompanied by three judges.  The judges noted any violation of the traffic rules and the driver’s ability to operate her motor car.  Contest winners appeared in a safe driving film made by the Ford Motion Picture Co for the Indianapolis police department. 

“Auto Saleswoman,” The Indianapolis Star, 4 March 1924, Willys-Overland Sec, p. 8:6

Net Fans in State Await Whistle to Start Great Derby

From The Indianapolis Star, Friday, February 29, 1924:  The shrill blast of the referee’s whistle will be the signal today for the start of Indiana’s great basketball derby.  In fifty-two playing centers the lithe forms of scores of sterling athletes, trained to the minute after weeks of preparation and careful coaching, will leap into the air for the advantage of the tipoff, and the annual thriller for the interscholastic hardwood championship of the Hoosier state will be underway in all its fervor.  Representatives of exactly 665 institutions carrying the hopes and fears of their constituents will race up and down the floor striving for the upper hand in various elimination rounds for two days to determine the first-round tournament winners.  One by one these will drop, until fifty-two undefeated quintets will remain as the outstanding performers of the original field.

Petition Opposes New High School

From The Indianapolis Times, Monday, February 18, 1924:  A suit seeking to prevent the Indianapolis board of school commissioners from building a separate high school for colored children was filed today in Superior Court, Room 5, by Archie Greathouse, an Indiana Avenue businessman and civic leader.  The school board plans building a new high school for white students costing $1,000,000 (2023:  $18,177,039) and a separate high school for colored students costing $150,000 (2023:  $2,726,556).  The suit filed by Greathouse alleges colored children cannot receive the same training in a separate school at the proposed sum as in one of the three other public high schools currently open to all students and that the school board has no legal right to expend taxpayers’ money in this way.  The suit asks for a temporary injunction pending a hearing on a permanent injunction.