From the Lawrence Daily World for Jan. 20, 1911:

• “Supt. F. P. Smith is confined to his home this week with three fractured ribs. The accident occurred Wednesday in his own dooryard. The Superintendent had started to the barn with a bucket of water and on a particularly treacherous spot of ice, lost his balance. In falling he struck the bucket, the impact being sufficient to crack three ribs on the right side.”
• “Jefferson City, Mo. — Representative John Burgin of Gentry county, [having] announced his purpose of starting a matrimonial bureau to obtain wives for the bachelors in the Legislature, has received a dozen letters already asking for details of his project and for photographs of the men. One girl says she is ready to come to Jefferson City immediately, if Rep. Burgin will only promise to have a ‘good Democratic husband’ waiting for her at the depot. Another girl promises ‘hot biscuits’ every morning for breakfast, and she’s not particular about the politics of her future husband, either. A St. Joseph stenographer sent this application: ‘I want to marry one who lives in the country and has a fine farm with a house and hot and cold water and steam heat. I don’t think I am bad looking at all, but he can judge for himself.'”