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MCHS
THIS WEEK IN INDIANAPOLIS
1924
news stories & adverts from one hundred years ago
Compiled by Steve Barnett
Ads & Illustrations clipped by Carl Bates
Oct 17, 2021
Age Limit for Drivers of Autos Place at 17
From The Indianapolis News, Tuesday, October 18, 1921: The legal age limit for automobile drivers was raised from sixteen years to...
Oct 5, 2021
Board to Discharge the 'Flagging' of Cars
From The Indianapolis News, Wednesday, October 5, 1921: The practice of school boys “flagging” passing automobiles for rides to and from...
Mar 14, 2021
City Becomes State Basketball Center Friday
From The Indianapolis Times, Monday, March 14, 1921: Indianapolis becomes the basketball center of Indiana for the first time when the...
Mar 4, 2021
Step to Acquire Property Taken
From The Indianapolis Times, Friday, March 4, 1921: Yesterday, the board of park commissioners took the first legal step in the program...
Feb 20, 2021
Indianapolis is Book Poor
From The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, February 20, 1921: Indianapolis is book poor! The library is 100,000 volumes short of what a...
Jan 20, 2021
Hearsay Behind Lurid View of School Morals
From The Indianapolis Times, Thursday, January 20, 1921: Lurid pictures of revolting moral conditions in Indianapolis high schools were...
May 10, 2020
10,000 Indianapolis School Children Receive Mid-Morning Lunch of Milk and Crackers
From The Indianapolis News, Tuesday, May 11, 1920: Ten thousand children in forty-eight Indianapolis public schools are now receiving a...
Mar 7, 2020
City Teachers Ask for Bonus
From The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, March 7, 1920: Yesterday, members of the Indianapolis Teachers’ Federation asked superintendent...
Jan 23, 2020
Chinese School Men Visit City
From The Indianapolis Star, Saturday, January 24, 1920: Thirteen members of the Chinese educational commission arrived in Indianapolis...
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