Indianapolis City Hall is drowning in lawyers, and taxpayers are footing the bill. The lead story reveals an "unprecedented legal invasion" as the city council creates yet another attorney position paying $1,500 annually for just a few hours of work per week. The plum job was originally designed for Charles J. Orbison, former Democrat turned counsel for the national Ku Klux Klan, but his son Telford just snagged the park board attorney gig for $2,500 a year. Meanwhile, State Senator William T. Quillen is set to become recreation department attorney at $1,700 yearly for a job with "practically no labor involved." The city now employs at least ten attorneys across various departments, costing taxpayers over $20,000 annually. In sports drama from France, temperamental tennis champion Suzanne Lenglen defeated California's Helen Wills twice in one day at Cannes, then promptly fainted from nervous strain after her victories, creating a scene complete with weeping mother and rushing doctors.

This snapshot captures the political corruption and patronage system that defined 1920s municipal politics, where public positions became rewards for political loyalty rather than public service. The Ku Klux Klan's mainstream political influence is starkly evident—having the national Klan counsel in line for a city attorney job shows how normalized the organization had become in American politics. Meanwhile, the Lenglen-Wills tennis match represents the era's hunger for celebrity spectacle and international competition, as Americans eagerly followed European sporting events that showcased dramatic personalities against stoic American representatives.

• A basketball fan named Lloyd F. Farley got so absorbed watching Shortridge High School's game that a pickpocket stole $58 from his pocket—equivalent to about $900 today
• Grover Shubert's car kept getting seized by police who confused his dealer license plate (with letter 'M') with a stolen car report, forcing him to retrieve his vehicle from headquarters twice
• A 110-year-old man named John Alexander Stroup died in Atlanta after being ill for only two days, with his 94-year-old brother Aaron coming for the funeral
• The city's recreation department attorney position pays $1,700 annually for virtually no work since 'the department seldom became entangled in litigation'
• Chicago gangster Orazio Tropea was gunned down while raising a defense fund to save two Genna gang henchmen from hanging

• Charles J. Orbison, the Democrat-turned-Klan counsel mentioned for the city attorney job, represented an organization at its peak power—by 1926, the KKK had over 4 million members and controlled politics in states like Indiana
• The House passed a War Department bill providing $18 million for air service and 350 new planes—just one year before Charles Lindbergh's solo Atlantic flight would revolutionize aviation
• Helen Wills, the 'imperturbable American girl' who lost to Lenglen, would go on to win 19 Grand Slam singles titles and become the first American woman to win Wimbledon eight times
• The $375,000 grain elevator project planned for Beech Grove reflects the agricultural boom of the 1920s, when American farm exports were feeding post-war Europe
• That $8,000 bank robbery in St. Louis would be worth about $125,000 today—a significant heist but tiny compared to the millions being made in bootlegging operations