G.A.R. Reunion Gets Underway

From The Indianapolis News, Monday, September 20, 1920: For the fourth time Indianapolis is the host city to the annual national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. The fifty-fourth national encampment opened today with over 60,000 visitors expected to attend the week-long event. By the end of the first day, 10,500 veterans had registered and more than eighty brigade and regimental reunions, along with other meetings of Civil War organizations, are scheduled at various locations throughout the downtown area in the coming days of the encampment. The Seventieth Indiana Volunteers will meet tomorrow at the Irvington home of W. H. H. Shank, 6002 E. Washington St. The 1,277 official delegates will meet this evening for a reception at Tomlinson Hall to hear welcoming addresses from Gov. James Goodrich and Mayor Charles Jewett. A parade will be held Wednesday.

“G.A.R Reunion Gets Underway,” The Indianapolis News, 20 September 1920, p. 1:1

Doubling Up Move Planned to Pierce Rent Hog's Hide

From The Indianapolis Times, Saturday, September 11, 1920: Driven to desperation by high rents, exorbitant prices of coal, groceries and other necessities, a number of families are considering living two in the same house this winter. The plan is being considered not only in the less exclusive neighborhoods of the city, but also in classic Irvington and highbrow North Meridian Street. Persons advocating “doubling up” say this is the only effective weapon left to renters battling unscrupulous landlords, leaving some apartment and dwelling owners apprehensive lest their profiteering of the last three years may be coming to an end. Widespread dissatisfaction with landlords in Indianapolis and elsewhere led to “doubling up” during the winter of 1916-17 that produced favorable results; landlords offered lower rents to prospective tenants if they would move to their properties. It was truly a renters’ paradise.

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“Doubling Up Move Planned to Pierce Rent Hog’s Hide,” The Indianapolis Times, 11 September 1920, p. 1:2

Colored Baptists Ask Recognition of Race

From The Indianapolis News, Friday, September 10, 1920: Speakers at the colored Baptist National Convention meeting in Tomlinson Hall condemned mob violence, lynching and general lawlessness. “True democracy can never exist in America as long as men and women are lynched and burned at the stake. America can never criticize others so long as she is unable to protect her own loyal citizens,” declared Rev. Parks of Philadelphia. “Now is the time we must let the world know we are opposed to proscriptions of any kind. We want to see, as far as it is in our power to do so, that only men are sent to congress who believe in the sacredness of human rights, and will recognize in the negro an American citizen, deserving of every right accorded any loyal, law-abiding citizen,” asserted Dr. Barbour of Galveston, Texas.

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“Colored Baptists Ask Recognition of Race,” The Indianapolis News, 10 September 1920, p. 14:4