From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Aug. 23, 1911:

• “‘It is our desire that the young women employed by the Fred Harvey system shall be of the same high standard that is maintained otherwise in its hotels and restaurants.’ These were the words spoken by Byron Harvey recently while discussing the matter of the help employed by his company. To this end Miss Emile B. Simons, Ph.D., who graduated from the University of Kansas, taught in the High School of Lawrence, and afterwards secured her doctor’s degree at Chicago University, has been employed to engage and look after the female help employed by the great Harvey system, with its hundreds of hotels and dining halls. The number of young women employed will run into the thousands, but every applicant will be investigated and none but young women of good moral character and refinement will be employed.”
• “Can the City of Lawrence force property owners to cut the weeds on their property? And can the city do the work and charge the cost to the property? These are the questions at present agitating several of the city officials and which they are trying to answer. The city ordinances say that it can be done…. The police are at present trying to enforce this ordinance, but are being met with no small amount of resistance.”
• “Dodge City, Kan. — Eleven years ago, in 1900, I. M. Dawson arrived in Ford County with $100 in money, a team of horses and a faith in Kansas. Yesterday Mr. Dawson paid $7,000 cash for some more land to add to the 1,344 acres he now owns in Ford County. He has one of the finest homes in that section and is worth more than $60,000. Wheat and hard work did it, he says.”