Old Home Town – 100 years old

From the Lawrence Daily World for Feb. 29, 1908: “A proposed union of school districts in Marion Township is due to be voted on soon. Seventh and eighth grades and the first two years of high school would be included in the building of a new structure with appropriate staff. : Two bogus checks were passed at the two largest furniture houses in the city and the suspect is being sought. : A bomb was thrown at the Shah’s automobile in Teheran, Persia, today as the ruler drove through the streets. Three of his outriders were killed and many were wounded but the Shah escaped unharmed. : Two young men, hardly more than boys, are in jail for breaking and entering a car containing household goods in North Lawrence. They got a good deal of valuable silverware, more than $500 worth.”