From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for May 2, 1911:

• “No butter from the farm or the country this summer? That is what is likely to happen. Farmers’ wives who have been delivering the butter to the customers are preparing to sell the cream this summer during the hot weather. This means that no more butter will be made on the farm this summer than is necessary to supply the family. The reason for this is the mild winter, which offered little or no opportunity to harvest ice. To buy the ice needed in making good butter and marketing it would reduce the profits to a very unattractive figure.”
• “Some very interesting and highly scientific pictures will be shown at the Aurora on next Friday. The different disease germs in water are photographed, magnified 40,000 times. These pictures are sometimes unique and very instructive.”
• “Uncle Sam, who appears to have an insatiable thirst for statistics, has the city carriers driven almost to the verge of hysterics this week. A new order has gone out from Washington providing for the counting of every piece of mail the carriers handle from May 1 to 31. The order demands that each carrier count and classify the varieties of mail delivered on every trip. The actual time consumed in handling each class, average number of pieces handled per minute, and the average number of handlings for each class received must be recorded.”