From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Dec. 7, 1914:

• “A resolution recommending to the governing board of the Missouri Valley conference that the rule prohibiting football games on Thanksgiving day, be repealed, was passed at the bi-annual conference of coaches and managers in Lincoln, Friday and Saturday. The repeal of this rule, as asked by the coaches and manager, would be the first step toward returning the annual Missouri-Kansas game to Kansas City as in old days when Tiger and Jayhawk met there on every Turkey day. The clause prohibiting men from participating in more than two sports during a single year was repealed, and Kansas athletes may now be in as many different forms of athletics as they choose…. However, the rule adopted at the meeting last June, prohibiting any school from being represented by more than one team, aimed primarily at the College basketball team at the University of Kansas, was not revoked, and consequently there can be no College basketball five here this season.”
• “Some of the railroads have placed in service on some of its through passenger train cars, a new type of baggage rack. These racks were designed by the engineer of car construction to provide ample storage capacity. They are provided with sliding gates, easily operated by the passengers. In this place, patrons of the chair cars on long trips can conveniently put away suit cases, wraps, parcels, bags and anything else. The new racks are much more satisfactory than the old ones now in use. It will prevent the luggage from falling on the heads of passengers, causing damage claims. It also keeps the aisles free from obstruction. The construction is so substantial that the sliding of the gates is an easy matter, even when the rack is loaded to capacity.”
• “Vernon McMillan, the motorcycle speed artist of Indiana, was in town a short time this morning on his way from Baldwin City, where he is attending school, to Morrill, Kan., his home. McMillan rides a motorcycle wherever he goes. He says it is quicker and a whole lot more fun. It is over a hundred miles from Baldwin to Morrill and he rides it in a little less than five hours. He brought his machine from Indiana with him last fall when he came from Indiana, where he was racing, to Kansas, to go to school. McMillan holds several of the motorcycle state records in speed and endurance.”