From the Lawrence Daily World for August 22, 1910: “Prof. E. E. Landrum, who has been assistant professor of chemistry, teaching quantitative analysis in the University of Kansas for three years, has resigned and will leave next week for New York. Prof. Landrum has accepted a position as chief chemist for the Lisk Manufacturing Co., where his own improved process of enameling will be adopted. For years chemists have searched for an enamel which is resistant to the cooking acids, possesses a satisfactory co-efficient of expansion, and still is sufficiently durable not to chip. The Lisk people, who have submitted the Landrum formula to the most searching tests, are convinced that he has solved the problem which has absorbed the attention of industrial chemists for years…. That farmers are getting the most of the automobiles is no jest. From January 1 to August 1 reports of 2,000 automobile dealers show that for the entire country 55 percent of all sales were to farmers. Out in Ford county, where they raised so much wheat this year (2,000 bushels per capita for the entire county population) that they pile it on the ground in huge heaps, the granaries and bins and elevators being overflowed, every farmer owns at least one automobile.”