From The Indianapolis News , Monday, February 1, 1926:  Indianapolis will be only half lit tomorrow at midnight.  As an experiment to keep the street lighting bill within the budget for the year, assistant city engineer Arthur Haufer announced that all streetlights on one side of each main thoroughfare will be turned off promptly at midnight Tuesday.  It is estimated this action will save the city $15,000 ( 2024 :  $271,273) annually and an additional saving of $28,000 (2024:

From The Indianapolis News , Monday, January 25, 1926:  Indianapolis attorney Charles Orbison was appointed imperial klaliff (vice president) of the Ku Klux Klan national organization by imperial wizard Hiram Evans at a Hotel Lincoln banquet attended by 300 Indiana Klansman yesterday evening.  Orbison will receive an annual salary of $12,000 ( 2024 :  $217,000).   He succeeds local attorney Walter Bossert who had relinquished the office as well as the position of Indiana gran

From The Indianapolis News , Friday, January 22, 1926:  Shortly before noon today, Grace May Banta Urbahns was administered the oath of office at her home, 404 E. 43 rd St, becoming the first woman treasurer of the state of Indiana and the first woman to hold a major office provided by the state Constitution.  Her accension to this office followed the death of her husband, Bernhardt “Ben” Henry Urbahns who had been elected state treasurer in 1924.  Urbahns died the previous

From The Indianapolis Star , Wednesday, January 13, 1926:  Recognizing that pigeons in University Square must eat and there isn’t much nourishment in snowflakes, dancer Alma Neilson, this week’s headliner at Keith’s Theater, after visiting the park yesterday morning with four pounds of cracked corn which disappeared with such rapidity that no one could doubt that the birds were hungry, has turned over $10 ( 2024 :  $181) to R. Walter Jarvis, park board superintendent, as a st

From The Indianapolis Star , Thursday, January 7, 1926:  Four hundred precinct committeepersons, ward chairs, and other prominent members of the Marion County Democratic Party adopted resolutions last evening pledging to fight to eliminate the Ku Klux Klan from controlling politics in the county.  The resolutions called upon, “all fair-minded citizens regardless of past political affiliations to join in eliminating the Ku Klux Klan and its leaders from all political control i