Sunday in Indianapolis a lively summer city parade
Vivid sketches of a Hoosier capital Sunday show busy parks busily crowded streets and bustling depots. Excursion trains fill the town with country families and city folk alike as phonograph parlors stir meals and music while the newsboy’s call marks another calm morning broken by communal leisure. Louis W. Jones reports a portrait of civic life on a summer day.
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Fortwune
Hoosier
Indianapolis
Mid-West
America
University Park
Hinds Street
Union Station
Illinois Street
Washington
Depot
Washington Street
Crawfordsville
Muncie
Fair Indiana
Monument Place
Woodlands
Pop
Louis W. Jones
Rich prizes offered to horse show exhibitors
The Indianapolis Horse Show Association announced a 2000 prize boost for the event to be held the week of Sept 21 under a tent on Senate Ave and Sixteenth St with a 3600-seat arena. The show’s executive committee promises a top midwest exhibition, with Dr C De Garmo Gray guiding entries from western states and a revised 62-class program across seven performances starting Sept 21.
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Indianapolis Horse Show Association
Senate Avenue
Sixteenth Street
Indianapolis
Lautter
Merchants’ Association
Columbia National Bank
A. E. Ashbrook
Kansas City
Ben Sen
Flirtation
Crisis
Sensation
Limestone Belle
Flirt
Marie Louise
Thistledown
Jack Cudahy
King
George Pepper
Toronto
Canada
Mate
Darling
Creighton
H. P. Crane
St. Charles
Indianapolis horse show to feature top jumpers and strict liquor ban
The Indianapolis horse show invites judges including Aurel Batonye Orson Moulton and J W Bowles as it schedules revised classes led by Crow Murray of Toronto with eighteen jumpers to exhibit. Officials mandate no liquor on grounds, detailing classes such as combinations harness and saddle, five gaited saddle horses, polo ponies, unicorn teams and high jump trials with prizes ranging up to 100 dollars.
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Aurel Batonye
New York
G. W. Bliss
Association
Crow & Murray
Toronto
Canada
Indianapolis Horse Show
America
Indianapolis Horse Show Classes Summary
A dense list of horse show classes with prizes ranging from 0 to 80 dollars. Includes Walk Trot Canter divisions, potato races, best roadster, pony and Shetland categories, tandem and four-in-hand teams, ladies and gents riders, and park and station wagon turnout. Several classes specify judging criteria like conformation, manners, and gait, with varying percentages assigned to horse, vehicle, harness, and appointments.
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Indianapolis Horse Show Association
Indianapolis
Marion County
Pabst Brewing Company
Milwaukee
Shetland
Park
Tobrougham
Stanhope
Spider Plhmeton
Park Trap
Mall Phaeton
Victoria
Indianapolis Horse Show event class highlights and prizes
A detailed ledger lists numerous classes for horse show events in Indianapolis including local entries from Marion county. Prize money ranges from ten to seventy five dollars with cups offered, and rules emphasize conformation, manners, action, and suitability for gig or park work.
A Supposed Social Test
A Philadelphia Record piece notes the social intrigue of visitors who ask a traveler whether he knows the Biddles of Philadelphia. It explains that locals, even in distant circles, define status by knowing the "Philadelphia Biddle" and lists common trades among the Biddle set while disparaging the exclusivity of elite circles.
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Philadelphia
Everse
Market Street
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Pap
W. G. Carling
Minneapolis
Miss Pickwick
Frank G. Hogan
Louisville
Flora
Faye
Gray
Dean R. Low
Topeka
Kan
Rip
Tap
George W. Bliss
Wheeler
The
DR. C. de Yarmo Gray
Frank M. Murphy
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