Spring's Coming, Folks!

From The Indianapolis Times, Monday, January 29, 1923: Spring isn’t here yet, but marble games are, and that’s a sure sign nice warm weather isn’t very far away. There’s something that gets in a kid’s blood along about this time of year, and there is just one way to get relief; that’s to get out some place, mark off a ring and start a marble game. The boys don’t have to hunt very long for a place to play, for they remember from last year where the best places are - an old walk or alley where the ring already is marked off in concrete and there can be no dispute over “liners.” New players are told to “knuckle two,” meaning knuckle down with two fingers, and “no fudgin’,” as they are about to “take a crack” at the ring.

“Spring’s Coming, Folks!” The Indianapolis Times, 29 January 1923, p. 1:6

Klan is Denounced as a Menace to Liberty

From The Indianapolis News, Friday, January 26, 1923: A resolution condemning the Ku Klux Klan was adopted yesterday by the council of the Indianapolis Protestant Episcopal Church Diocese at its annual meeting. The resolution expressed “strong disapproval and condemnation of the Ku Klux Klan, and all other secret political societies as un-American and as a menace to peace and order, and to social security and wellbeing.” The resolution also deplored and denounced “the appeal to religious and racial prejudice and hatred as political motives. Nothing could be more un-Christian.” The council asserted the church has a well-earned reputation for broadness, toleration, and for sound Americanism and therefore it is bound to condemn the Ku Klux Klan for its narrow intolerance and un-Americanism and the fostering of class spirit which is a menace to liberty and to free and democratic institutions.

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“Klan is Denounced as a Menace to Liberty,” The Indianapolis News, 26 January 1923, p. 37:1

Pound Closed, Dogs Drugged

From The Indianapolis Times, Wednesday, January 17, 1923: The city dog pound is no more and a whiff of chloroform emanates from the place as ill dogs or those for whom no home could be found are put to death. Former pound master Dr. Elizabeth Conger said it’s an act of kindness to put dogs “to sleep” since the city council failed to pass an appropriation of $5,700 (2020: $88,000) for the upkeep of the pound. During the past year, over 1,300 dogs have been sheltered at the pound, and with the pound’s closure several dogs have been placed with veterinarian Dr. Michael McGintey and with men at the municipal yards. The president of the Humane Society said hereafter it could take in injured dogs and humanely put them down, but the society could make no provisions for stray dogs.

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“Pound Closed; Dogs Drugged,” The Indianapolis Times, 17 January 1923, p. 1:3