Old home town – 100 years ago today

From the Lawrence Daily World for Nov. 10, 1905: “There is great anticipation about the university-Washburn football game tomorrow in Topeka. KU has one loss, Washburn is unbeaten and tickets may be hard to obtain. A mass meeting of students was held in chapel today to compose yells for the Washburn game. : A good many local business men are taken in by grafters because the local people do not want to be considered inconsiderate of the needy. But there needs to be a war on grafters here because so many are fraudulently hurting our business people. Beware of beggars. : The local marshal has caught a man who held up two people here and he quickly confessed when threatened by the marshal. The confession was one of the most complete ever made here, one attorney said.”