From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 17, 1912:

• “Usually, the Journal-World’s telegraph service begins about 11 o’clock in the morning. Yesterday it started coming at eight o’clock, and continued without a break until four yesterday afternoon…. Although not a person from Lawrence was lost in the sinking of the Titanic the feeling of grief here was just as general as if scores of Lawrence persons had been drowned thus showing how a nation mourns over a national tragedy.”
• “Miss Patty Hyde of Wichita, who has friends in Lawrence, may have sailed on the Titanic. Miss Hyde has been spending some time abroad and had written friends that she would sail at the time that the Titanic left on its fatal voyage. A search of the lists does not reveal her name on either those who sailed or those who were rescued. However, it was reported today that all the names of the survivors or those on the ship have not been found…. There is little doubt in the minds of Jeremeia Mangan and his family of Kansas City that their daughter Margaret, 15 years old, and their niece, Miss Katherine Kenney, 24 years old, waited for a later boat than the Titanic…. A letter from Miss Kenney to her brother, which he received Saturday, said that they had changed their minds and did not expect to sail until about April 15, That would put them on a later boat so the relatives are feeling relieved.”