Old Home Town – 100 years ago

From the Lawrence Daily World for July 18, 1908: “The public hails with delight the announcement that when the Barnum and Bailey Greatest Show on Earth visits Lawrence on July 21 it will again present the free street parade and pageant as a part of its daily program. : Crusader Carry Nation says she is opposed to the sheath dress for women and will tear off every one she sees. She visits here now and then. : Kansas is due for a less than ideal wheat harvest but the states of Washington, Idaho and Oregon are having banner years. The crops in the three states in 1907 brought in more than $38 million and Kansas seems to have new competition.”