Old home town – 100 years ago today

From the Lawrence Daily World for Jan. 26, 1906: “Saturday work is becoming a feature in Kansas University life. Two years ago there was scarcely any work done at the university on weekends. Every Saturday this term, the shops have been crowded, the chemistry laboratories have been full, the medical laboratories are in constant use and there are many lights burning in many of the campus buildings until late in the evening. If there is any school that keeps her students busy all the time, it is KU. : A young local fellow sent to the asylum a few months ago, a well-educated man, may be back soon. Asylum people say he is cured. : Sheriff Woodward has learned that a fellow sent up from here for attempted robbery was not a raving maniac, as thought, but a ‘coke’ fiend. He was sentenced and deprived of his cocaine and now is reported to be ‘raving wild.'”