Police to Give Gardens Care

From The Indianapolis Star, Saturday, May 4: In response to the depredations by dogs, cats, chickens, cattle, horses, hogs, and other pests on some of the 45,000 vacant lots being cultivated by patriotic citizens for war gardens, Mayor Charles Jewett and Chief of Police George Coffin warned that city ordinances prohibiting “any fowl or animal of any kind” running at large will be “strictly enforced by the police department and every protection under the law will be given to people who are engaged in the patriotic work of planting a war garden.” Among the worst offenders, according to the Patriotic Gardeners Association, are chickens, dogs and cats. Owners of these pests will be warned and if their animals are found ravaging gardens in the future the offenders will be punished accordingly and the owners prosecuted.

“Police to Give Gardens Care,” The Indianapolis Star, 4 May 1918, p. 18:3

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Women Aiding U.S. at Indianapolis Plant

From The Indianapolis News, Saturday, April 27: Clad in blue and white checked bloomer suits and sporting the sauciest kind of cap to match, the 125 young women employed at the Nordyke & Marmon aviation factory are seated at tables inspecting connecting rods, cylinders, rocker arms, and other parts of Liberty aircraft engines which are being manufactured at the plant to carry American airmen on scouting and bombing flights over the German lines. The women work in one of ten departments under the supervision of other women. Mrs. Louise Kendall Huston is the general supervisor. While the work pays well, the women are also drawn to do it through a high sense of patriotism. According to Harvey G. Shafer, secretary and factory manager, within the next ninety days 1,000 women are expected to be employed at the factory.

“Women Aiding U. S. at Indianapolis Plant,” The Indianapolis News, 27 April 1918, p. 5:1

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50,000 New Members is Goal in Campaign

From The Indianapolis News, Saturday, April 27: Taking as its membership campaign slogan the words of Lincoln, “All men up and no man down,” two hundred workers of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will canvass schools, churches and civic organizations in the next few days to put Indianapolis pass its quota in the nation-wide effort to enroll 50,000 new NAACP members. The movement has grown rapidly since the association’s inception ten years ago when white and colored people began working in a determined effort to stamp out injustice and discrimination against African Americans. The $1 (2017: $17) membership fee will go towards paying the clerical and investigative work of the NAACP’s legal department to build on last November’s Supreme Court decision against segregation and open avenues now closed to colored people.

“50,000 New Members is Goal in Campaign,” The Indianapolis News, 27 April 1918, p. 12:1

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