100 years ago: 4-year-old loses use of leg

From the Lawrence Daily World for Oct. 19, 1909: As a result of infantile paralysis, William Layport, the four-year-old son of Mr and Mrs. P. W. Layport, 1548 Mass., is a cripple in one leg. John Layport, his brother, three years old, was also down with the terrible affliction but is now entirely recovered and shows no ill effects from the deadly disease. The boys had been sick for about a year while doctors tried to determine the cause. . . . In a fierce encounter with the family cow, a dehorned Jersey he had milked for years, J.H. Evans of 845 Mo., was knocked down and trampled and gored when the cow became vicious. Evans may owe his life to the fact the cow had no horns. He ws badly cut up and bruised. The cow had never before been vicious in any way. . . . “Hazing is a foolish and cowardly custom,” said a chagrined university chancellor Frank Strong to students on the campus this morning. He had been on a trip to the east and returned to learn of hazing incidents. He called a meeting at the chapel and said “Hazing must be and will be stopped at KU.”