From the Lawrence Daily World for June 12, 1910: “Down the winding valley of the Kaw two aerial crafts will fly next Wednesday, battling against wind and distance, with Kansas City as the goal of the first cross-country flight ever attempted in Kansas or the Missouri valley. Topeka is to be the starting point of the flight. Overland Park, a suburb of Kansas City, is to be the finishing point. Lawrence, and probably Olathe, will be the two towns selected for the aviators to alight and renew their supplies of gasoline and oil…. T. J. Lamb appeared in the limelight quite prominently today, when his grip was found on the river bank at Kansas City and it was feared that he had committed suicide. The World sent a reporter to the Lamb residence on West Warren street where Mrs. Lamb was preparing to take the 2:30 train for Kansas City. A few minutes later Mr. Lamb called his wife over the long distance phone and said that he was at the Baltimore hotel in Kansas City, confessed that he had been imbibing too freely, but really did not know how his grip wandered down to the river bank.”