Eastern Realty Values Increase

From The Indianapolis Star, Monday, March 25: Permanent public improvements have played a great part in the development and growth of Indianapolis as a city of homes. The elevation of the Belt Railroad, improvements at Ellenberger Park, the construction of Pleasant Run Boulevard, and the extension of the East Michigan street car lines have contributed to a boom of property values. In recent months the value of lots in the Tuxedo community and in Irvington have increased more than three times. Residential development and property values in the Brookside Park area has also benefited from the track elevation and the extension of street car lines. The city’s eastward growth is only a small part of the development of property in Indianapolis. The city has expanded in practically every direction with a commensurate rise in property values.

“Eastern Realty Values Increase,” The Indianapolis Star, 25 March 1918, p. 1:2

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City News in Brief. Outlawed Volumes Surrendered

From The Indianapolis Star, Wednesday, March 20: Members of the local International Bible Students’ Association surrendered 5,000 copies of The Finished Mystery to Charles Tighe, agent-in-charge of the Indianapolis office of the Justice Department. The religious tract, published by Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society, has been declared disloyal propaganda in violation of the Espionage Act. This volume is the seventh in a series written by Pastor Charles Taze Russell. Among the objectionable passages, “Nowhere in the New Testament is Patriotism (a narrow-minded hatred of other peoples) encouraged. Everywhere and always murder in its every form is forbidden; and yet, under the guise of Patriotism the civil governments of earth demand of peace-loving men the sacrifices of themselves and their loved ones and the butchery of their fellows, and hail it as a duty demanded by the laws of heaven.”

“City News in Brief. Outlawed Volumes Surrendered,” The Indianapolis Star, 20 March 1918, p. 7:1

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$400,000 Medic School on Way

From The Indianapolis Star, Monday, March 18: Bids will be taken next month in the office of architects R. F. Daggett & Co, 956 Lemcke Annex, 115 N. Pennsylvania, by the board of trustees of Indiana University for the construction of a building for the Indiana School of Medicine on a site east of Robert W. Long Hospital. The $400,000 (2017: $6,636,835) facility will replace the present medical school building west of the State House, which has long been recognized as inadequate, and will represent the last word in medical school design. The new four or five story building will be of pressed brick and stone trimmed. While the appropriation approved by the last state legislature for a new medical school was vetoed by the governor, university trustees have found other sources to fund its construction.

“$400,000 Medic School on Way,” The Indianapolis Star, 18 March 1918, p. 1:7

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