From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 27, 1913:

• “Lawrence will extend aid to the suffering persons in Ohio who are homeless and without food. This morning Mayor S. D. Bishop issued a proclamation calling upon the citizens of the town to contribute as much as possible in an effort to alleviate the suffering and misfortunes of those who have been driven from their homes and who are facing poverty and probably starvation as a result of the terrible floods which are spreading destruction throughout Ohio and Indiana. It will be but a small sum, compared with the grossness of the disaster, but it will help. Lawrence is always big hearted and no doubt the citizens will respond to the appeal for aid. Subscription papers have been started at the newspaper offices and all of the banks in the city. They have been scattered in this way so that all will have an opportunity to give something. It is quite necessary that these contributions come in at once as the people are in immediate need and help must be sent them at once or it will be too late. Already a number of contributions have been received and more are coming in all the time.”
• “The Progressives of Douglas county will meet tonight at the Fairfax Hotel to discuss plans and complete the organization of the party in this county. Supper is to be served at 6 o’clock and the management of the Fairfax has promised a ‘Big Feed’ for this occasion. Plates will be but 25 cents…. A general invitation to attend is extended to all.”
• “News of the death of Mrs. Lewis Hanback at her temporary home in Los Angeles, California, recalls vividly one of the noble women of the state. Mrs. Hanback was a pioneer who went through all the privations of pioneering. She came to Kansas early and took her place beside her husband…. Mrs. Hanback was known to all the older and many of the younger generation in Lawrence where she resided with her daughter during the last years of her life. She was a woman of strong character and her death recalls that most of the stalwart men and women who made Kansas glorious by their pioneering have passed over to the other side.”