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 Times , Wednesday, December 9, 1925: Answering assertations made by six women that young men – “shieks” – in autos and on downtown corners are annoying women and girls and nothing is being done, Prosecutor William Remy said politics in the police department is responsible for “sheiking” because Indianapolis police are told whom to arrest and not to arrest. Police officials responded, saying women mostly are to blame for the boldness of the “shieks” bec

From The Indianapolis News , Wednesday, February 4, 1925: Mayor Lew Shank yesterday appointed Lelia Kern Taylor, the wife of Dr. James...

From The Indianapolis Star, Thursday, August 23, 1923: Work on eliminating or at least reducing several of the more prominent city...