Junior Officers' Unit is Sought

From The Indianapolis Star, Wednesday, March 12, 1919: At the regular meeting of the Indianapolis board of school commissioners last night, it was disclosed that an application had been made by Superintendent Ellis U. Graff, in compliance with instructions previously issued by the board, to the U. S. War Department for the establishment of a junior reserve officers’ training corps in the Indianapolis high schools. While no word has been received in reply to the application, however in this connection, the board of school commissioners has placed a compilation of a set of rules on military discipline for the government of military training in the high schools in the hands of Superintendent Graff and Capt. Newton Hardin, commandant of cadets, that includes a rule forbidding the wearing of Sam Browne belts by the “commissioned officers” of the high school cadets.

“Junior Officers’ Unit is Sought,” The Indianapolis Star, 12 March 1919, p. 13:3

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Auto Show Will Hold Boards This Week

From The Indianapolis Star, Monday, March 10, 1919: The Indianapolis Automobile Trade Association will hold its eighteenth annual show this week. Since no building in the city is large enough to hold the exhibition, the display will be held in salesrooms along the “Motor Rows” - Capitol Avenue, Meridian, Pennsylvania and Delaware Streets. The public will be treated with souvenirs and favors as they move from dealer to dealer while being entertained with jazz bands and soloists, harpists and classical selections as salesmen describe the merits of four, six, eight or twelve-cylinder auto power plants. Although very few strictly new models will be on the show room floors, little refinements and conveniences will be entirely worth seeing. A Curtiss airplane will be a special feature on exhibit at the Gibson Co, appointed dealers for the sale of airplanes in Indiana.

“Auto Show Will Hold Boards This Week; All’s Ready,” The Indianapolis Star, 10 March 1919, p. 1:5

“Auto Salesmen Invite Crowds,” The Indianapolis Star, 9 March 1919, Part Six, p. 2:1

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City to Spend $5,040,000 on 1919 Building

From The Indianapolis Star, Monday, March 3, 1919: New building and construction work in Indianapolis during the coming year is estimated at $5,040,000 (2018: $74,1627,729). Forty percent of the construction money will go to city projects that include schools, the first unit of the sewage disposal plant, and street and sewer construction. Railroad track elevation work in the downtown area is underway and railway improvements by various lines entering the city account for about two million dollars. Improvements to the stockyards and a proposed building at the State Fair Grounds will contribute more than $600,000 to the total amount of construction funds. A new Lyric Theater, a large factory building of the VanCamp Packing Co on South East Street and the Belt Railroad, and a Spink apartment building will see an expenditure of nearly a million dollars in private money.

“City to Spend $5,040,000 on 1919 Building” The Indianapolis Star, 3 March 1919, p. 1:5

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