From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Dec. 1, 1914:

• “This morning about 8 o’clock as the Bell telephone repair truck was going to work out at Clinton, it skidded and upset in a ditch just south of the Number 6 School House. There were six occupants of the truck. They were all piled in a heap under the truck mixed with the tools which they were going to work with…. The men were brought back to town where they were given medical attention.”
• “The bi-annual meeting of athletic managers, coaches, and faculty members of the Missouri Valley Conference will be held in Lincoln, Neb., Friday, to arrange basketball, track and baseball schedules for the coming season…. The basketball schedule will probably consist of four games with Missouri, four with Washington, and four with the Kansas Aggies, leaving six games to be filled by non-conference teams, as each school is limited to eighteen games during the season.”
• “The University of Kansas has started a motion picture film exchange, which it will operate free of charge for the benefit of school children in small Kansas towns. Prof. F. R. Hamilton, director of the extension work at the university, saw the advantages of teaching by means of motion pictures. The exchange has been running only a month, but in that time twenty-eight inquiries have come to the office, and every film is out on the road all the time. Each reel is shown two or three times each week. Professor Hamilton is trying to get several more sets of film to supply the demand for them.”
• “A 100-pound bale of the best quality of absorbent cotton costs $19, a thousand bandages cost $35, a thousand yards of gauze $21, and a hundred pounds of chloroform, $40. These are some of the things the K. U. students are buying for the sufferers in the war zone. The University of Kansas students are manifesting not a little pride in the fact that their university has outstripped other schools in the amount of money subscribed for European war sufferers.”
• “And the end is not yet, said the weather man last night. There is nothing in the weather forecast to indicate that the weather would change from the ideal, semi-summer brand to the normal for this time of year, which would be 26 degrees…. Today will be partly cloudy and probably warmer than yesterday. Fifty-one degrees was the highest temperature yesterday and the average for the day was 11 degrees above normal. Unless rain falls before midnight tonight this November will be the third driest of any month of any year since the establishment of the weather bureau in Topeka.”
• “The heating system of the filter in the swimming pool at the Y. M. C. A. has been enlarged so that it will be possible to use the pool the entire winter.”