From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 29, 1912:

• “Social activities at the University of Kansas are lagging. The students are ‘bugging’ for quizzes. The thinning of the ranks by the stay-at-homes was easily seen by the small crowd at the basketball game and the scarcity of dancers at the parties. Last night the usual crowd at the parties down town was not seen. [Students] at one of the dances seemed to have more than their share of melancholy. Minds never rest. The thought of coming quizzes — Oh, what a thought! For six days the damper on the life of otherwise lively students will shut off all roads of enjoyment. Twenty-four hours is not long enough these days. How can the work of nine weeks be studied in one day? Can’t. That is the reason why anyone passing through the student section of the town late at night can see well-lighted rooms. It is the midnight vigil which is so often depicted by the cartoonist.”
• “Frankie Osborn, the boy who was injured in a coasting accident a few days ago, was taken to a hospital in Kansas City for an operation. His condition is very serious.”
• “Lebanon, Mo. — Mrs. Nancy Haye Williams today was appointed sheriff of Laclede county to serve until the special election, when a successor to her husband the late Sheriff J. W. Williams will be elected. She is believed to be the only woman sheriff in Missouri.”