From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Dec. 1, 1911:

• “Harry Kemp’s ‘Beautiful Soul” seems to be playing an important part in the [Upton] Sinclair divorce case according to the latest news from New York. Ellen Barrows, stenographer for Sinclair, testified that Kemp, the Kansas poet, was in company with Mrs. Sinclair almost all the time he was at Arden, the summer estate of the Sinclairs…. Sinclair himself testified that he had introduced Kemp to his wife three years ago in Battle Creek, Mich. The author said Kemp had given assurance that his friendship for Mrs. Sinclair was purely platonic.”
• “Who will step in and take care of a family of little children all under fourteen years old? There are about six or seven children by the name of Haskins living in North Lawrence who need someone’s care badly…. Recently the Journal-World told of the Haskins family after the death of the mother, leaving the little ones alone for the father is alleged to be a drinking man and one who does not watch out for the children…. Here are a family of children who must be watched over, who must be guided, for what will the result be if they grow up in the way they may go now? It is not necessary for any one person to take the whole family but it is necessary that somebody interest themselves in seeing that some care is provided for these little ones. For the sake of better citizenship, it is the duty of a community to see to it that the Haskins children are taken in hand and cared for. It can be done, for it is beyond belief that no one in Lawrence cares how these children grow up or what their careers may be.”