From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 12, 1914:

• “I never robbed that barber shop. I never stole anything in my life. I have always been an honest laboring man,’ was the frenzied retort of Sam Loar when first accused of robbing George Fry’s barber shop shortly after he had been arrested and placed in the county jail for threatening the life of his wife and her uncle. ‘I know where the razors are, I had them,’ Loar told the sheriff yesterday after he found out that the sheriff had the evidence on him and there was no way out of being charged with the robbery. ‘Will you go with us to find them?’ asked Sheriff Cummings. Loar assented and they drove to Topeka and located nearly all of the tools where Loar had sold them. Part of the tools were sold here in Lawrence before he left here on the night of the robbery. Suspicion was aroused in the mind of the sheriff when he was talking with one of Loar’s neighbors about the threat he made when he said that Loar had a handful of razors. Sheriff Cummings had gathered sufficient evidence in the case to convict Loar without his confession but the confession made the progress of the case more rapid and did away with the necessity of a trial. The confession of Loar corroborated the evidence gathered by Sheriff Cummings.”
• “W. F. Reinisch, chief of the fire department, is in Kansas City today making the first inspection of the new fire motor car. It is likely that the car will be given a tryout while the chief is there. It is not completed but has reached the stage where it may be given a tryout. The car is being made to order for the Lawrence Fire department. The company asked for 70 working days in which to complete the car. The time will be up within the coming month.”
• “Dr. A. P. Hults has received word that George Caldwll of Salina, the new secretary of the Golden Belt Auto road, will be in Lawrence within a few days. Mr. Caldwell expects to go over the entire route and spend a good deal of time this summer in steering trans-continental tourists over this route. It is the purpose of the managers of the Golden Belt road to have every pole on the road painted from Kansas City to Denver. At present only the turns are marked.”
• “Mrs. Fowler of 1613 West Warren [Ninth] street came near losing her life this morning from a dose of carbolic acid. Whether the poison was taken accidentally or intentionally has not been established. It is intimated that there has been trouble between the woman and her husband and that she intended to put an end to herself…. A doctor was called about 11:30, and he later said that he did not think she was in serious danger.”
• “The 10-room house of John Miller on the Johnson farm, 1 and 3/4 miles northeast of Vinland, burned last evening about 6:30. It is supposed that the fire started from an oil stove. The men were at the neighbors at the time, and the women were at the barn. When they noticed the fire it had such a start that they were able to save practically nothing from the house.”