From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Aug. 26, 1911:

• “There continues to be talk of an electric line between Kansas City and Topeka and it seems certain that at some future date these two cities will be connected by an Interurban that will go via Lawrence. The Topeka Commercial Club is very optimistic in the matter and even ventures the statement that such a line will be in operation by the time another year has passed.”
• “Last night was the coolest night this summer. Didn’t you think so as you hunted for more cover when you woke up early this morning? The thermometer on the hill fell as low as 60 degrees early this morning which was the lowest mark that has been reached here this summer. However, it is not a record as a temperature of 49 was recorded one day last August.”
• “The mystery of the disappearance from the Louvre of Leonardo Da Vinci’s great painting, ‘Mona Lisa,’ appears more impenetrable than ever tonight. Support for the theory that ‘Mona Lisa’ was carried away by some one whose head had been turned by the beautiful face, was found this evening in the admission of M. Le Prieur, the curator, that during the last year letters addressed to Mona Lisa had been received quite frequently at the Louvre.”