From the Lawrence Daily World for Aug. 21, 1909: While walking in his sleep, Albert Armstrong, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. H.H. Armstrong of 810 Rhode Island, fell from the roof of their kitchen early yesterday. He sustained painful but not critical injuries. He had been sleeping on the roof and fell some 15 feet. … Charles W. Barnes, state superintendent of insurance, has issued an order for insurance companies to reduce their rates here. He has been investigaging recent local rate hikes, considers them excessive and promises an investigation after new state laws made increases possible. Barnes says too many rate hikes are far out of line. . . . J.H. Glathart and I.J. Meade had a narrow escape from death when the driving cart in which they were riding pitched them into the ditch with great violence. Their horse bolted and a wheel of the cart broke causing the near-fatality. . . . The city council needs to consider higher city taxes to meet the heavy deficits which have occurred in the past three years. The biggest problem is the failure of some to pay the improvement taxes on certain buildings. Mayor Bishop says “our finances are in grave status and we must act to remedy the problems.”