From the Lawrence Daily World for Feb. 4, 1911:

• “A movement will be launched this week to establish a Junior Civic League in Lawrence. With penny packets of flower seeds the children of Lawrence will be encouraged to plant gardens and aid in beautifying the city. The value of children’s gardens as a means for health, happiness, recreation, gentle but effective exercise, and as a preventative of moral and physical tuberculosis, is becoming more and more recognized. There is no longer a question as to the value of fresh air and sunshine for the delicate child or adult.”
• “[Book review] ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ by Gaston Leroux. This story seems easily the best that Gaston Leroux has written, of a far higher type of imagination than that displayed in ‘The Mystery of the Yellow Room.’ It is a most extraordinary, clever, fantastic tale — original in idea and masterly in treatment. The plot possesses double powers of enthrallment: It plays upon the reader’s imagination with a fine sense of the creeps, and at the same time it evokes a deeper human interest in the fate of the several persons prominent in it. ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ is nothing less than a new sensation.”