From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 10, 1914:

• “What is Lawrence going to do about the flies? The city commissioners have done a lot of good in other ways but they have not done anything about the flies. It has been repeatedly suggested that public fly traps scattered along the business streets would do a lot towards ridding us of flies. This year is a bad one for flies. We have more than at any time previous. There has been a lot of rain and it has left pools that have been good for both flies and mosquitoes. Suppose war be made on the flies. Suppose the city commissioners give us a lift by providing some traps.”
• “The faculty and students of the summer session are picnicking on the green, west of Fraser hall, on the University campus this evening. The various clubs and boarding houses have agreed to furnish enough food to provide for lunch. In each basket a tag bearing the name of the owner has been placed and lots are to be cast in order to ascertain which members of the various clubs are to lunch together. After lunch a Victrola concert is to be given and for those who wish to have other forms of entertainment a subscription dance is to be held at 7:30 in Robinson gymnasium. Various old-fashioned games are also included in the program of entertainment.”
• “Fire yesterday destroyed the big new barn of Wm. Schaake, 2 and 1-2 miles east of Lawrence. 75 tons of newly cut alfalfa and 200 bushels of corn were burned. It is not known how the fire started unless it was from spontaneous combustion from the hay. The barn was in flames when first seen by the family and nothing could be done to save it. There was insurance on the barn but not on the contents.”
• “Repairs are now being made in the basement of Snow hall. The west room, formerly used as a laboratory of the zoology department, is being divided by partitions into rooms suitable for class and recitation purposes. In place of the dark ceiling and walls, new wall material will be used in order to give the rooms a light, cheerful appearance.”
• “Possibly the best concert of the season was given at Woodland park last night by the K. N. G. band which is giving concerts at the park this season. The numbers played were well selected and took well with the crowd. The motion pictures were very interesting and were enjoyed by the large number of people who had gone out to the park to enjoy a cool evening and hear the concert. The dancing was not as well attended as was expected but a goodly number made the best of the opportunity to dance in the auditorium with good music.”
• “Washington. — Among the bills passed by the senate last night was the house measure creating an aviation section to the army signal corps with 60 officers and 260 enlisted men. Other measures adopted were […] a bill making it a misdemeanor to use the American Flag or its coat of arms or other insignia as an advertisement trade mark or label; a joint resolution authorizing the president to raise the regular army to war strength when such action is deemed necessary. Under the present bill the army is limited to a fighting force of 100,000 but is maintained at 60,000 to 70,000. This does not include 4,000 officers and men of the hospital corps or 6,000 men of the quartermaster corps.”