September 19 – September 25The Week in Indiana History |
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“For the Farmers’ Day Parade (at the State Fair,) I was asked to drive a pony cart, an event that went fairly well until the high school bands leading the parade began to play loud, fast marches. What a day! I don’t know whether the pony or I was more scared and confused.” – – – Kathryn Louisea Heiliger Craig (1911 – 2001) Her husband, George Craig, served as Indiana Governor from 1953 to 1956. Did You Know?   Even back in the “Good Old Days,” there were state taxes. The book Indiana Past and Present by George S. Coffman, published in 1915, provides a look at the tax schedule for 1824. Property taxes were $1.50 per hundred acres for first-class land, $1.00 per hundred acres for second-class land, and 75 cents per hundred acres for third class land.  Each horse and mule was taxed at 37 1/2 cents. A two-wheeled carriage was charged $1.00. One with four wheels was assessed at $1.50. If you owned a brass clock, you paid a tax of $1.00. A silver watch was 25 cents, but a gold one was $1.00. There was also a poll tax of 50 cents for each male over 21 years of age “who was sane and not a pauper.”
ANSWERS: 1. b/ Single G     2. d/ Garfield   3. a/ Henry |
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1937   The Mark Twain Roustabout Club of Indianapolis embarked on their annual river steamboat trip. The group, made up of business and professional members of the community, began their journey on the Ohio River at Cincinnati and traveled to West Point, Kentucky. Invited to join them on the riverboat S. S. Gordon C. Greene were Indiana Governor M. Clifford Townsend and Senator Frederick Van Nuys,.
1948   The Four Freshmen singing group made their debut at the 113 Club in Fort Wayne. The quartet, which began at the Jordan School of Music at Butler University, was made up of brothers Don and Ross Barbour, their cousin Bob Flanigin, and friend Hal Kratzsch. They created a vocal jazz harmony that won them a contract with Capitol Records. The group’s big hits include “It’s a Blue World,” “Mood Indigo,” and “Day by Day.”
1942   The first P-47 Thunderbolt fighter plane was produced by the Republic Aviation Company in Evansville. Equipped with eight 50-caliber machine guns, the P-47 was one of the most important planes used by the United States Air Force in World War II. By the time the war was over in 1945, over 6,000 Thunderbolts had been built in Evansville.
