From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 15, 1911:

• “The insidious roller towel with its lurking inside of filthy disease germs will have to join the common drinking cup. A Board of Health proclamation, which is equivalent to the most drastic law, was drafted in Lawrence yesterday consigning the stiffly starched boarding house towel to the junk-heap. No more will the cinder coated traveler or the grimy factory hand conduct an unsuccessful search for a dry spot on the huge dirt incrusted towel found in Kansas hotels and boarding houses. It has been swatted into oblivion.”
• “Officer Daily arrested Harrison Hall, a negro, last night, on a charge of grand larceny. Hall is connected with the theft of a $30 tent from the Ecke barn last week, and is suspected of being the burglar who has terrorized Lawrence homes for so long…. it is not positively known that Hall is connected with the larger burglaries in Lawrence, but it is suspected that he may be.”
• “Stakes have been driven for the new home of J. B. Watkins on his property just back of the K.U. Physics building. Mr. Watkins plans to have one of the most handsome homes in the city by next fall.”
• “Little Cleta Johnson, the nine-year-old daughter of J. N. Johnson, former treasurer of Jefferson county, is leading all contestants in a race for a pony and cart offered by a farm paper. The little girl has secured about 200 subscribers in the vicinity of Sarcoxie.”