From the Lawrence Daily World for Jan. 28, 1911:

• “The rankest proposition that has ever been put up to the rural patrons of the Lawrence post office now comes from the Kansas City Journal and Times, which want the rural carriers held in Lawrence until about 9 o’clock in order that the train on the Southern Kansas may bring to Lawrence the morning Kansas City papers. The fact that an accumulation of mail from fifteen or more mail trains would be delayed for at least two hours and that the carriers would return to Lawrence too late to catch the fast mails east, means nothing to these newspapers who have always tried to fatten upon the people of Kansas.”
• “The Lawrence train is not presenting the usual sporty appearance that it has for several months, says the Ottawa Herald. The cause of the change is that the regular rear car has been put on the sick list. It was a long vestibuled car while the one that is taking its place is a small car with two partitions and no vestibules. The regular coach was taken off of the run on account of a defect in the lighting system used. It will be repaired and returned to the run.”