From the Lawrence Daily World for June 29, 1910:

“Nellie, the 18 year old feeble minded daughter of Mrs. Mayme Cook, living on Bridge Street, was enticed to Bismark Grove Saturday, forcibly kept all night and ravished. The outrage was not reported to the police but current on the streets yesterday afternoon. It could not be confirmed, however, until the girl was located this morning…. The horse belonging to John Cannon, rural carrier on Route No. 8, became frightened while standing at the post office, and broke its hitch strap. It ran east, turning north on New Hampshire. At the shirt factory, it collided with a phone pole, tearing one wheel off the wagon. The animal was caught before it demolished the vehicle further…. Berry picking is one of the chief occupations of the Lawrence small boy who is anxious to earn a little additional money for the Fourth. There are a number of blackberry patches surrounding the city and the crop demands a large crop of pickers. The growers pay from a cent and a half to two cents a box, and the average boy can pick fifty to sixty boxes a day.”