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MCHS
THIS WEEK IN INDIANAPOLIS
1925
news stories & adverts from one hundred years ago
Compiled by Steve Barnett
Ads & Illustrations clipped by Carl Bates
Rusty, Battered Guns of Huns on Exhibition
From The Indianapolis News, Monday, September 23: Crowds swarmed over University Park today to see relics from the battlefields of...
Sep 23, 2018


148,900 Listed in 19-37 Class
From The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, September 15: Major Robert Baltzell, Indiana conscription officer, estimates 148,900 men, ages 19 to...
Sep 15, 2018
German Paint Found in School Supplies
From The Indianapolis Star, Tuesday, September 10: A number of North Side parents noticed that the cakes of water color paints from the...
Sep 10, 2018


Autoless Sunday is Generally Observed
From The Indianapolis News, Monday, September 2: Few pleasure cars were on the streets of Indianapolis Sunday as the city observed the...
Sep 2, 2018
4-Minute-Men Ready for Work
From The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, August 25: C. Roltare Eggleston, chairman of the Indianapolis Four-Minute Men, has notified the...
Aug 25, 2018


City Honors 1,258 Colored Draftees
From The Indianapolis Star, Wednesday, August 21: Yesterday evening, the city’s downtown streets were filled with cheering, shouting, and...
Aug 21, 2018
Training Corps Unit for Butler College
From The Indianapolis News, Friday, August 16: Butler College received word today that it has been selected as a site for a unit of the...
Aug 16, 2018


Thousands Join Line Viewed by Greater Throng
From The Indianapolis Star, Tuesday, August 6: Last night a throng of 60,000 lined Meridian St from North St south and around Monument...
Aug 6, 2018
City to Keep Record of Its Part in the War
From The Indianapolis News, Tuesday, July 30: Indianapolis Mayor Charles Jewett proposed today that a public record be kept showing the...
Jul 30, 2018
One of 37,000 Children in Marion County Undergoing Test for Physical Ills
From The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, July 21: At the suggestion of President Wilson, the Council of National Defense has requested...
Jul 21, 2018
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