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Drs. Arett C. Arnett and Franklin S. Crockett founded the Arnett-Crockett Medical Clinic in fourth-floor space in the Schultz Building, northwest corner of Fourth and Main streets
William M. Loudon succeeded Daniel B. Kehler as commandant at the Indiana Soldiers Home.
Battle Ground High School opened, replacing School No. 8 and a 14-year-old building in Americus.
A Purdue Women's Club was organized.
About 4,000 attended open house for the new Painters & Decorators international union headquarters building on North Sixth between Main and Ferry streets.
Construction began northwest of State and Grant Streets in West Lafayette for the Purdue Memorial Union.
Per federal court order, Julius Berlovitz and Charles Murdock bought the Lafayette Street Railway Company's barn, tracks and poles. The men hoped to keep the financially troubled railway going. Among the problems: old rolling stock, right-of-way hassles with the City of Lafayette, unpopular tokens for higher fares, track damage on the Oakland Hill route, competition from motorized buses, jitneys and passenger cars. On March 24 ,Berlovitz and Murdock formed a newly capitalized Lafayette Street Railway Corporation, and planned renovations and revival of service.
The Fort Wayne & Northern Indiana Traction Company sold 18.5 acres of Tecumseh Trail Park to the Indiana Soldiers Home for a state park.
Indiana's first licensed radio station, WBAA, went on the air in the Electrical Engineering building basement at Purdue University. The station operated at first with 20 watts' power at 920 on the AM radio frequency.
In a cost-cutting move, Lafayette Street Railway Corporation discontinued runs on the money-losing Soldiers Home-to-Battle Ground line.
Parishioners placed the cornerstone on their St. Lawrence Church near 19th and Meharry streets.
Cora Davis became the first woman to win a political election in Tippecanoe County, getting 6,186 votes to John C. Doyle's 3,208 in the Republican primary for county auditor. Harry G. Leslie, 44, former county treasurer, won the party nomination for joint state representative from Tippecanoe and Warren counties.
Purdue trustees chose Edward C. Elliott to take over as the sixth president of the university, effective Sept. 1, 1922.
Purdue University alumni George Ade (Class of 1887) and David E. Ross (1893) announced their gift of the 65-acre Tilt dairy farm north of the West Lafayette campus for an athletic stadium. The announcement came at an alumni banquet at Indianapolis honoring the new Purdue president, Edward C. Elliott.
Roscoe Sarles, 31-year-old race car driver from Lafayette, rising in fame, was killed in a 300-mile event in Kansas City when a steering knuckle broke in his Durant racer.
Republicans swept local elections, and Cora Davis became the first county woman to win an election to public office. She defeated Democrat Charles Benjamin for auditor 10,009 to 7,622. Harry G. Leslie won the joint state representative seat, and Sen. Ray Southworth, West Lafayette, gained re-election.
Purdue University officials placed the cornerstone during a ceremony at the Memorial Union Building construction site.
Lafayette native Henry Boonstra, a former World War I airplane pilot now in the U.S. Mail Service, was found safe in Utah after his plane crashed in a blizzard in the mountains and he was missing for about four days.