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

• “‘But, really, I haven’t accomplished anything! I am only hoping to in the future.’ It is this modest, unassuming attitude combined with her unwavering persistency in hard work that is putting Edith Pinney in the front ranks of science. Her work in high school, college and university has been one brilliant success after another, winning fellowship after fellowship which have carried her far in her chosen field. This girl scientist is a resident of Ellsworth county — Wilson, Kansas, being her home. For several years, however, home to her has been at many different universities. She comes naturally by her investigating tendencies as her mother has always interested herself in biological research and her father, Dr. Pinney, is a well known physician in central Kansas…. Miss Pinney’s meteoric flight through the University of Kansas was rewarded with a fellowship to Bryn Mawr where she went into her life with a vim. One success led to another and her wise young head — and heart — was full of that rather obscure subject known among scientific folk as Cytology…. While still at Bryn Mawr she studied the material over which Professor Wilson and several other great scientists had wagered a noted controversy and prepared a paper on the subject. This paper was widely discussed and put its clever author on the road to her European fellowship. As may be imagined, a European fellowship is exceedingly rare, especially for a woman…. Long study at the famous University at Bonn, where she made a friend of the world famous Verworen, research work at Neuberg and finally her long sojourn at the Marine Station at Naples have taken the scholar far from the ordinary landmarks of biology and have placed her in a sphere wherein she may investigate and experiment at will…. The girl is fair and slender and dresses with a grace exquisitely feminine. One’s preconceived idea of a woman scientist was of mannishly tailored clothing and hair pulled tightly into a tiny knot under a felt hat with a quill on it. It was a delightful surprise to find in the noted Miss Pinney the complete antithesis.”
• “A special Thanksgiving service at the Congregational church, the holding of many reunions and the deserted appearance of the town are the only signs that today is a national holiday. It possesses none of the decorations of Christmas nor the noise of the glorious Fourth…. Governor George H. Hodges of Kansas has issued the following proclamation calling upon the people of Kansas to give thanks: ‘An established and beautiful custom makes provision for a unified acknowledgement by a people of the land, of a divine and overruling Providence in all the affairs of life…. The recurring season reminds us of our profound obligations for the blessings of political and civil liberty; for our unity as a people; for the enjoyment of peace and prosperity; for our ever increasing wealth of material and moral resources; for increasing opportunities for industry; for our wonderful and peaceful progress toward the realization of the better ideals of public and private life…. In harmony, therefore, with that action taken by the President of the United States, I, George H. Hodges, Governor of Kansas, do hereby designate Thursday, November 27, 1913, as a day of general Thanksgiving….”
• “Thanksgiving dinner will be the most expensive meal the average American has eaten during the last twenty-five years. It will cost from 35 to 100 per cent more than it did ten years ago and from 15 to 50 per cent more than any Thanksgiving day during the last six years…. Thousands of turkeys spoiled by having been shipped to market during the unseasonable warm wave, which overspread the country a week ago; the drouth of last summer which shortened crop yields, particularly white potatoes […] are among the contributing causes to which economists point. The great American hen, however, is somewhat responsible for the extraordinarily high price of eggs, according to the department of agriculture officials…. Heat and drouth of the last summer, they say, caused the hens to stop laying sooner than usual. As to turkey, the rise in price seems to have extended along the route to the consumer, beginning at the barn yard, where the farmer received an average of 15 cents a pound for his birds, about half a cent more than he got last year…. But turkey is not a Thanksgiving bird at all, according to the experts. ‘The Lord never intended turkey to be the Thanksgiving food of the country generally,’ says Dr. Mary E. Pennington, the expert in food research in the federal bureau of chemistry. ‘Christmas is the time for turkey. Green goose is the Thanksgiving bird and is generally used in Europe, where St. Martin’s day is celebrated about this time of year. In colonial days in New England, where the winter season sets in early. it was different and more favorable to turkeys, but such conditions do not prevail over the United States as a whole.’… The family which turns from turkey to chicken, pork or beef will find prices uniformly advanced…. Sweet potatoes are about the same price as last year, but the white potato crop is 100,000,000 bushels below last year’s…. Cranberries with a normal crop are a little higher than last year. Flour and sugar are uniformly cheaper and butter shows no comparative advance.”