From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 25, 1911:

• “President William Howard Taft spent just one hour in Lawrence yesterday morning but in that hour the chief executive addressed the throng that had assembled to the depot to greet him, visited Kansas University, addressed the students and townspeople that had gone up the hill and then from the back of his train bid the town farewell as he left to continue his long trip over the United States. A visit to Haskell Institute and an address to the students there was also included in the President’s visit to Lawrence…. From the train the president and his party were taken to the University in autos…. All along the route to the University hill and Robinson Gymnasium, citizens had assembled to see this great man and do honor to him…. For the first time William H. Taft, President of the United States, was before the people of Lawrence. It was as if he had stepped from one of his pictures, for face and appearance of the President are just as the people picture him.”
• “A three day’s fair is what is being planned by the Douglas County Fair association. The weather is rather threatening for a fair but the committee is working hard to get things in shape in spite of the rain. Today and tomorrow are to be preparation days, when the big pumpkins, the prize vegetables, the best cakes and pies, the prettiest chickens and the finest horses and cattle and in fact that best of everything that Douglas county affords are being put in place ready for the inspection of the judges and for the visitors to the fair.”