Site for New Athletic Club Home Chosen

From The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, February 6, 1921: The new home of the Indianapolis Athletic Club will be built at the southwest corner of Vermont and Meridian Streets pursuant to a decision made yesterday by the club’s board of directors. Currently, the Fahnley Home occupies the site. With its façade of Indiana limestone and ornamental carvings of fruits and flowers suggesting very strongly the Italian palace style and interior of white walnut, the house is one of the two or three most imposing residential structures in Indiana. Eighty-two year old Frederick Fahnley, the present owner, said, “We all have to give way gracefully to the city’s progress…The athletic club typifies the new spirit of Indianapolis and I am glad to have my old home site identified in this way.” Construction of the clubhouse is expected to begin in early summer.

“Site for New Athletic Club Home Chosen,” The Indianapolis Star, 6 February 1921, p. 1:1

Light Air, Soot and Fog Cause 'Sky Darkness'"

From The Indianapolis Star, Wednesday, February 2, 1921: A cold “sky blanket of darkness” draped over Indianapolis for most of yesterday. The mysterious phenomenon, created by minute moist particles of soft coal soot suspended in the light air and deepened by fog, required the city’s businesses to use artificial light and automobiles were seen with headlights burning through the “smoke screen.” John Armington, local meteorologist of the United States Weather Bureau, said, “The air yesterday was darkened by floating particles of soot from the smoke of soft coal furnaces of the city and the light air failing to carry off the saturated soot. Such a condition is liable to occur in any city as large as Indianapolis, and it does not indicate the coming of any heavy storm. It is the worst case of sky gloom I have ever seen.”

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“Light Air, Soot and Fig Cause ‘Sky Darkness,'” The Indianapolis Star, 2 February 1921, p. 5:5

Hotel Men Seeking Way to Stop Use of Search Warrants

From The Indianapolis Times, Monday, January 24, 1921: Indianapolis hotel managers are seeking legal methods to protect themselves and their guests against unjustifiable abuse of search warrants issued by city courts and served by Federal prohibition enforcement agents. These warrants have given prohibition agents authority to search guest rooms and seize intoxicating liquor from these rooms. In Indiana it is not illegal to have liquor in one’s possession unless it is to be sold, and Indiana law requires seized liquor to be retained by the court issuing the warrant until a hearing determines for what purpose the liquor was kept. Federal agents have failed to turn over liquor seized in hotel rooms to the court. “Hotel men are not bootleggers and do not harbor guests who are in that line of business,” said the general manager of the Lincoln Hotel.

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“Hotel Men Seeking Way to Stop Use of Search Warrants,” The Indianapolis Times, 24 January 1921, p. 1:7