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INDIANAPOLIS 



same office in 1916, on the Republican ticket 

 with Charles E. Hughes. In somewhat earlier 

 days, Thomas A. Hendricks, one of Indiana's 

 most famous sons, died while holding the office 

 of Vice-President in the first Cleveland ad- 

 ministration. 



Other Items of Interest. The rights of In- 

 diana in the Ohio River end with low-water 

 mark on the north shore, and all islands in the 

 river thus belong to Kentucky. Between 

 Green River Island and the Indiana shore 

 river deposits now form a connecting strip of 

 land, making the island no longer an island, 

 but even this peninsula the Supreme Court 

 has adjudged to be Kentucky territory. 



The dune region of Northwestern Indiana is 

 noteworthy as the home of an unusual number 

 of wild flowers it is, indeed, a botanist's para- 

 dise; and for this reason, as well as for its 

 picturesqueness, efforts are- being made to have 

 it set aside as a public park. 



Among the well-known writers native to In- 

 diana, besides those named above, have been 

 Edward Eggleston, John Hay, Joaquin Miller, 

 Charles Major and Meredith Nicholson. 



Of the prisoners in the state prison about 

 half are leased out on contract to private cor- 

 porations, while the remaining half do work 

 for the state. 



In 1916 Indiana celebrated the centenary of 

 its admission to the Union with a series of pag- 

 eants beginning on May 16. The coming of 

 the pioneers, their conquest of the wilderness, 

 the earliest schools where "lickin' and larnin' " 

 went hand-in-hand, the work of the circuit 

 riders, the trials of the War of Secession all 



these and many more stages in the life of the 

 state were graphically presented. The pageants 

 were especially noteworthy in that they dealt 

 not merely with spectacular episodes, but em- 

 phasized as well the quiet, orderly develop- 

 ment of the commonwealth. A.MCC. 



Consult Thompson's Stories of Indiana; Aley 

 and Storey's Story of Indiana and Its People; 

 Esarey's History of Indiana. 



Related Subjects. The following articles in 

 these volumes will add much that is of interest 

 to the story of Indiana: 



Anderson 



Bedford 



Bloomington 



Brazil 



Columbus 



Crawfordsville 



East Chicago 



Elkhart 



Elwood 



Evansville 



Fort Wayne 



Frankfort 



Gary 



Goshen 



Hammond 



Huntington 



Indianapolis 



Jeffersonville 



Building Stone 



Cement 



Coal 



Corn 



Hay 



CITIES 



Kokomo 



Lafayette 



La Porte 



Logan sport 



Marion 



Michigan City 



Mishawaka 



Muncie 



New Albany 



New Castle 



Peru 



Richmond 



Shelbyville 



South Bend 



Terre Haute 



Valparaiso 



Vincennes 



Wabash 



LEADING PRODUCTS 



Oats 



Steel 



Tobacco 



Wagon 



Wheat 



Meat and Meat Packing 



PHYSICAL FEATURES 



Ohio River 

 Wabash River 



White River 

 Wyandotte Cave 



-JLNDIANAP'OLIS, IND., "the capital and 

 the largest city of the state, and the county 

 seat of Marion County, noted as one of the 

 great railroad centers of the United States. It 

 occupies both banks of the White River, and 

 lies in almost the exact geographical center of 

 the state, fifty-six miles northeast of Bloom- 

 ington, the population center of the Union as 



determined by the United States government 

 in 1910. Chicago is 183 miles northwest, and 

 Cincinnati, Ohio, is 109 miles southeast. The 

 city has transportation facilities through the 

 service of seven trunk lines of railroad and 

 nineteen electric lines. The railroads entering 

 the City are the Chicago, Indianapolis & 

 Louisville; Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton; 



