From the Lawrence Daily World for July 8, 1910: “Guy C. Smith will never again light a match to see if there is water enough in the water tank attached to the carbide lights on his automobile. Mr. Smith and a party of friends intended running up to Topeka last night and before starting he wanted to see that everything was all right so attempted to look into the water tank. It was dark and when a match was applied there was an explosion which burned the young man’s eyelashes and brows and scorched his eyes. No gas is supposed to enter the water tank, but it was there and came near costing Mr. Smith the sight of his eyes…. A Topeka inventor with a new model fly trap invaded Lawrence this morning, and gave some astounding demonstrations of the efficiency of his patent on Massachusetts street. The trap is made in the form of a double inverted cone and will hold captive about two pecks of active buzzers. A cup of sweetened water is placed under the trap and when the fly rises upwards it invariably crawls in. The traps were placed at nearly every corner of Massachusetts today, and were soon literally packed with flies.”