From the Lawrence Daily World for Sept. 19, 1910:

“The program for one afternoon at the Douglas county fair next week will be devoted to automobile races. The program has not been outlined yet, but will include some five mile races, some demonstration stunts, obstacle races, and possibly some hill climbing exhibitions. There are a great number of speedy cars in Lawrence and if sufficient rivalry can be created, their owners will vie with each other in establishing some speed records…. Lulu Bong, the woman arrested Saturday morning while in the act of robbing a North Lawrence home, proved to be an escaped inmate of the Topeka asylum. A guard came down from the hospital yesterday after the patient…. A Lawrence citizen who has not gotten over being a boy advocates the establishment of Baden-Powell boy scouts here. He believes the movement has immense value as a promoter of patriotism…. Thieves visited 1022 and 1026 Ohio street Sunday night and carried away all the furniture on both porches. There has been a great deal of this petty pilfering in Lawrence this summer and the police threaten a clean up of certain undesirable districts. A host of suspicious characters who are never known to work are sheltered in these districts, and the authorities are inclined to place them on the rock pile as vagrants, or insist on their leaving town.”