Army Chances Never Better

From The Indianapolis Star, Monday, June 16, 1919: The United States Army Indianapolis Recruiting District operates more stations than any state. Twenty-one stations outside Indianapolis draw recruits from an area with a population of 3,000,000. The Indianapolis District is second only to New York, which has a population of 7,000,000 from which to draw, in supplying the largest number of recruits. For the first time in the Army’s history, young men will be permitted to choose their branch of service and the country in which they desire to serve where American soldiers are stationed. The U. S. Army currently has troops in France, with the Army of Occupation in the Rhine country, in Panama, China, the Philippines, and the Hawaiian Islands. The Air Repair Unit at Speedway has a large number of vacancies. No married men are accepted for enlistment.

“Army Chances Never Better,” The Indianapolis Star, 16 June 1919, p. 16:5

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Brilliant Pageantry of Night Parade Crowns Shrinedom's Gala Week

From The Indianapolis Star, Thursday, June 12, 1919: A series of flashlight photographs captured a record number of patrols, bands and chanters in last night’s Shrine Imperial Council parade. More than 5,500 uniformed Shriners, many clad in zouave dress, and 1,500 fez capped Nobles in evening dress passed before a spellbound crowd of 200,000 gazing at the spectacle the like of which Indianapolis never saw or heard before. The host Murat Temple Shriners headed the parade with the band in green and white capes, the patrol in red trousers and green and yellow jackets, and the Bedouins in long floating white robes. Sixty-three other temples followed, each seeming more gorgeously dressed than the one preceding. With the coming of dusk, horsemen and chariots fringed with lights joined the lights winking out on the caps and fezzes many of the marchers.

“Brilliant Pageantry of Night Parade…,” The Indianapolis Star, 12 June 1919, p. 1:1

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74 High School Cadets to Go to Camp Custer

From The Indianapolis News, Wednesday, June 11, 1919: Seventy-four junior reserve training corps cadets of the Indianapolis high schools were named in orders issued by Maj. Arthur Perry, professor of military science and tactics in the Indianapolis high schools, to attend five weeks of summer training at Camp Custer, MI. The boys were selected upon recommendations of the officers in charge of the units at the three high schools - Shortridge, Manual, and Arsenal Technical. The cadets will assemble at Shortridge High School’s Caleb Mills Hall on Friday afternoon for final instructions and to receive a list of items that they will need to take with them before leaving Saturday morning in a special car over the Lake Erie & Western Railroad. The War Department designed the training program and will cover the expense of the cadets’ transportation and training.

“74 High School Cadets to Go to Camp Custer,” The Indianapolis News, 11 June 1919, p. 18:1

“Local Cadets to Enter Camp,” The Indianapolis Star, 12 June 1919, p. 11:4

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