Ralph Hill Memorial Fountain is Unveiled

From The Indianapolis News, Monday, November 10, 1924:  A fountain, The Pioneer Family, cast in bronze of a dark green, was dedicated in a simple ceremony yesterday afternoon in Fountain Square before a crowd which packed the place.  A gift to Indianapolis from Phoebe Hill in memory of her husband former Congressman Ralph Hill, the fountain, designed by local sculptor Myra Reynolds Richard, is a striking work of red slate and marble with green tile in the base topped by the figure of a father holding a musket, standing behind a mother with her Bible in her arm.  The little boy, shouldering an ax, looks straight ahead, while his more timid sister, with her doll, stays close to her mother.  Mayor Lew Shank and other civic leaders made appropriate remarks, with music provided by the Indianapolis Police and Firemen’s band.       

“Ralph Hill Memorial Fountain is Unveiled,” The Indianapolis News, 10 November 1924, p. 19:8

The Election - The Klan - The Future

From The Indianapolis Times, Friday, November 7, 1924:  Republican Ed Jackson, Ku Klux Klan candidate for governor, has been elected and although he ran 100,000 votes behind President Coolidge in Indiana, the Klan is welcome to claim as much credit as it wishes.  With the next Indiana legislature overwhelmingly Republican, there will be little trouble in putting through regular G.O.P. measures at the next session.  Where friction may arise, however, is that the House is overwhelmingly Ku Klux Klan and the Klan strength in the Senate is unknown.  Leaders point out that Klan policies will be introduced as set out in a recent proclamation by Walter Bossert, grand dragon.  Among those measures are compulsory teaching of the Bible in public schools, abolition of private and sectarian schools, segregation of negroes, and stringent Blue laws applying to Sunday theaters and baseball.

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“Easy Path Seen for Republicans in Legislature,” The Indianapolis Times, 7 November 1924, p. 2:4

"The Election – The Klan – The Future,” The Indianapolis Times, 5 November 1924, p. p. 1:4

Broadcasting Station to Be Opened Tuesday

From The Indianapolis News, Thursday, October 30, 1924:  Indianapolis residents will be able to listen to the broadcasting of Indiana and national election returns next Tuesday evening over the new radio station WFBM.  The Merchants Heat & Light Co received a Class A broadcasting license yesterday from the U. S. Department of Commerce that provides for the operation of a 250-watt station on South Harding St which will primarily relay programs sent out by higher-powered stations such as Westinghouse station KDKA in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  WFBM was established to give the several thousand owners in Indiana of small crystal receiving sets the advantage of getting programs from larger distant stations.  C. A. Portman will operate the station.  Radio listeners in the city have been without a local broadcasting station since WHO and WLK ceased operations more than a year ago.

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“Broadcasting Station to Be Opened Tuesday,” The Indianapolis News, 30 October 1924, p. 14:1