From the Lawrence Daily World for Jan. 14, 1911:

• “The ‘Mail Man,’ as people call him, is known in the Post Office as a City Carrier as distinguished from a Rural Carrier. He works 49 hours a week, doing the light days’ work as quickly as possible and using the time saved in completing his routes on heavy days. On the business street they make four deliveries and six collections a day. In the residence portions, two deliveries and two collections a day. Two of the carriers are mounted, being the most efficient way of delivering scattered territory. Foot carriers service is now only established where there are good walks and the houses are properly numbered and boxes placed where easily reached.”
• “The collegiate basket ball season will open in Lawrence tonight when the Baker and Jayhawker fives tangle on the floor of Robinson Gym. ‘We expect to win,’ said Coach Hamilton this afternoon, ‘but I fear Baker will drive the Kansans to their limit.'”
• “The sleet this morning was as good as a bequest from a rich uncle to Lawrence blacksmiths. The horse shoers were busily occupied all morning sharpening shoes and replacing worn ones. On Winthrop this morning two grocery wagons were marooned at the bottom of the steep ascent to Massachusetts. The horses had managed to skid down the hill all right, but their shoes were worn too smooth to make the ascent on the icy pavement. Their drivers finally had to make a wide detour and approach Massachusetts on a gentler incline.”