Musicians Coming to City for Convention

From The Indianapolis News, Saturday, July 25, 1925:  Beginning tomorrow, Indianapolis will host the seventh annual National Association of Negro Musicians convention.  The Indianapolis Music Promoters, a branch of the national association, will provide entertainment.  Colored musicians, artists, and instructors from across the country will gather Sunday afternoon for a songfest at Caleb Mills Hall featuring a local chorus of 150 voices singing negro spirituals and special numbers.  In the evening, several of the negro artists will appear in churches throughout the city with the object of increasing interest in negro music and to encourage negro composers and artists.  Contralto Marian Anderson and the Hampton Quartet will be among the prominent attendees.  WFBM radio will broadcast nightly programs by representatives of the national association.  Simpson A. M. E. Church, 1034 N. Missouri St, will be the site of business sessions.

“Musicians Coming to City for Convention,” The Indianapolis News, 25 July 1925, p. 31:6

Architects Selected to Plan News Homes

From The Indianapolis News, Wednesday, June 24, 1925:  Indianapolis architects Pierre & Wright have been selected to design five homes for the great $200,000 (2024:  $3,653,142) home building project sponsored by The Indianapolis News.  The purpose of this undertaking is to acquaint the public with harmonious and satisfactory modern and artistic residences. Homes representing French, English, Spanish, Italian, and Colonial styles have been selected to demonstrate the discernment of combining beauty and useful art with sturdy utility in building that ideal of every true American – a real home.  Working with a landscape architect, Pierre & Wright will select the five home-sites from land under consideration by the News that provides natural beauty – wooded terraces and a restful vista for tired eyes – and accessibility.  Every step of development from groundbreaking to final landscaping details will be closely followed by the News.

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“Architects Selected to Plan News Homes,” The Indianapolis News, 24 June 1925, p. 1:6

Stephenson Wins State Evidence

From The Indianapolis Times, Tuesday, June 16, 1925:  A copy of the dying declaration of Madge Oberholtzer, for whose murder former Indiana Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon D. C. Stephenson and his co-defendants Earl Klinck and Earl Gentry are charged, was given to the defense at today’s bail hearing for the defendants.  The dying declaration was made available to the defense by Marion County prosecutor William Remy with the condition that the defense would agree to introduce it in evidence.  After introducing the statement as evidence, the defense made a motion to strike out its vital points which was overruled by Hamilton County Circuit Court Judge Fred E. Hines and the dying declaration stood as originally signed by Madge Oberholtzer.  Later, Judge Hines denied bail for Stephenson and his co-defendants, and they will continue to remain in jail pending their trial.

"Stephenson Wins State Evidence," The Indianapolis Times, 16 June 1925, p. 1:7