From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Dec. 14, 1911:

• “The Lawrence Creamery Co. is now installing steam cooking vats and machinery for the manufacture of mush and hominy which they intend to put up in parafinned cartons of convenient size for family use and distribute to the Lawrence people through the agency of the groceries and meat markets. Who does not like fried mush? And what dish is cheaper or better? In this venture the Lawrence Creamery is following the lead of several creameries that have been engaged in the business for some years in Kansas City where the products have proven very popular.”
• “The Spirit of Christmas has arrived. In fact it has been hovering about for quite a while but now it has settled down, bringing its usual message of good cheer and gift giving. One way that the Spirit of Christmas manifests itself is in the decorations, and also the display of articles. Nowhere has the Spirit of Christmas found a more satisfactory abiding place than at the new Innes store. Naturally you would be a very happy Spirit also if you had a big new store in which to dwell, where the interior had been transformed into a sort of Christmas Bower just for your benefit wouldn’t you?… Strands of evergreen, great clusters of holly, make a background against which the Christmas novelties stand out alluring and satisfying. But it is upstairs that the Spirit has found really its ideal location in Babyland, for does not Christmas belong to babies and children? Babyland is a newly acquired territory to Lawrence, and strange as it may seem the city council has not yet passed an ordinance taking into the city limits, but it is there all right.”