From the Lawrence Daily World for Feb. 24, 1910: Many farmers are fearing a corn famine this year because of the bad weather, and seed corn should be tested to see if it survived. There is great concern in the corn belt. . . . Policeman Jim Pine hauled in two more bootleggers today and both face fines and jail time. They were discovered in a livery stable. . . . Albert Emmanuel and W.R. Sullivan have made good their word about coverage of the city by street cars and they got it all done, as promised, in a year’s time. These two young men from Dayton, Ohio, are not the ordinary kinds of vendors. They made big promises and lived up to them. . . . A heavy protest is being registered in Washington about the boosting of mail rates, particularly second-class rates. Every members of the U.S. House is reported to be getting more than 300 mailings a day, and many of them have come from this area. . . . For some reason there seems to be an exodus from Nebraska University by a number of athletes, some of them stars in football and track. It seems coaching is a concern and that is causing the departures.