From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 28, 1911:

• “Motoring at a rate exceeding the speed limit last night at an hour when Massachusetts was crowded with downtown workers hurrying home for supper, a party of Kansas Citians ran down and seriously injured C. E. Varnum, 615 Tennessee street. Mr. Varnum was riding his bicycle at the time of the accident, and was thrown a dozen feet by the force of the collision. Pausing merely to see that the injured man was not dead, the auto party threw in the clutch and whirled away before anybody could note their number.”
• “Victor Berger of Milwaukee, a Socialist, in a resolution introduced in Congress today, not only proposes to abolish the U.S. Senate, but aims to strike from the President his veto power and take from the supreme court its authority to invalidate any legislation enacted by the House of Representatives. This proposed amendment to the Constitution, if petitioned for by five per cent of the voters of each state, shall be submitted to a general referendum vote.”
• “A massive marble entrance, mahogany and marble fixtures, mosaic tiled floors, mirror-surfaced writing rooms, commodious lobby, three impregnable vaults and an almost solid plate glass front are among the improvements contemplated in the ground floor remodeling of the Lawrence National Bank. With the new Bowersock Opera House just across the street, this should make the Lawrence National Bank corner one of the best in the city.”