Old Home Town – 100 years ago

From the Lawrence Daily World for July 25, 1907: “People coming back from vacations in Colorado say the weather is fine but that the mosquitoes are vicious and carnivorous. Fishing is good but the bites from the bugs are horribly distracting, said A.D. Weaver upon his recent return. : A local farmer who was about to accost a young man for stealing the hat of his daughter from their carriage was brought up short when it appeared that the girl had just misplaced the hat and nobody had tried to take it. : The battle goes on over the L.H. Perkins estate, whether insurance firms will pay out and whether Perkins might have committed suicide rather than dying accidentally. The body has been exhumed and stomach contents are to be analyzed. : A woman ran into the local police station and said a cook at a local restaurant where she is a waitress hit her up the side of the head with a steak. Police are investigating. : An attorney for a gas company in New York was paid a $25,000 fee, one of the largest amounts ever paid for the modest amount of work he did, we are told.”