From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Dec. 31, 1913:

• “New Year’s Day will be a holiday in Lawrence. Tomorrow will be observed in the usual quiet way with a rest before the beginning of the year’s work. There will be a number of watch-night parties and there will be the usual number awake to greet the new year tonight. Business will be practically suspended down town tomorrow. The banks and city and county offices will be closed all day and other business will be suspended at noon. The Journal-World will print an early paper tomorrow and participate in the observance of the holiday. All of the clothing and shoe stores have agreed to an all day closing tomorrow.”
• “With the opening up of spring weather next year the paving campaign that was interrupted by the state legislature will be again taken up by the city of Lawrence. A number of sections of street that were ordered paved at the December meeting of the city council have been protested but others have not and work on these streets will begin as soon as possible.”
• “Final details of the new vaudeville theater in the 1000 block on Massachusetts street are being rushed to completion this week to allow an opening early in January. Workmen are engaged today in placing handsome decoration on the front of the building and the work on the interior is being rapidly pushed to completion. People who have seen the interior of the new playhouse say it is the handsomest in the state. The furniture which is now being put in position is the best obtainable and the wall decorations have often been pronounced the finest in the city. Manager Lee Cohn said today that the show would open probably January 8 and at the latest January 12. The opening bill of three acts of vaudeville and three reels of pictures will be announced next week. ‘We would rather open a few days late and have everything complete than to open before the work was all done,’ said Manager Cohn today. ‘People may be assured that when the show does open everything will be complete.'”
• “There will be more names of the delinquent tax list of Douglas county next year than ever before, according to authorities in the county treasurer’s office. In spite of repeated warnings from the treasurer and deputy the usual number of taxpayers put off the evil day until the last day — today, and the clerks in the treasurer’s office knew no rest as the line filed past the windows. However, the steady stream of tax payers did not decrease and this afternoon saw a longer line than this morning.”