Old home town – 100 years ago today

From the Lawrence Daily World for May 11, 1906: “Prof. Blackmar created mild excitement among the state club women meeting here with his address on ‘Elimination of the Socially Unfit.” He pointed out how the women of the state could help greatly in the prevention of crime by supporting the temperance movement and lessening the chances for criminals to abuse drink. : Two men arrested in Perry apparently did not figure in the $2,000 Wolfson’s burglary here. As an officer said, ‘They were not professional enough as criminals to have carried it off.'”