From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 14, 1914:

• “Dr. A. P. Hults received a letter this morning from Kansas City inquiring as to the number of automobiles in Lawrence. There is a possibility of a ‘cent station’ for the sale of gasoline being put in here, if the proposition is favorably received by the local motorists. Kansas City, Topeka and Ottawa and many other towns have these stations. They sell gasoline at one cent above the cost price. Where put in they have proved popular with the motorists and make a saving of a good many dollars during a year in the gasoline bill of autoists. At present 5 gallons of gasoline costs 90 cents. At Ottawa at the ‘cent station’ 5 gallons cost 75 cents.”
• “The army worm evidently got wise to the thunderstorm that was coming and broke camp. After bivouacing for a week or two on the wheat and alfalfa fields of Kansas the army has disappeared. Prof. Hunter, of the entomology department of the University, said this morning that the army worm had disappeared before the rain. The insects he says have gone into the ground where they will remain until fall when they will reappear in a transformed state. Prof. Hunter does not anticipate any great danger from the worm this fall. The poison that was put out by the farmers killed a great many of the pests. The worms have gone into the ground to lay eggs. These will hatch this fall, and the reason Prof. Hunter was so anxious to poison as many of the worms as possible this spring was to decrease the hatching force.”
• “B. F. O’Thick, park commissioner of Fort Scott, is in Lawrence today. Mr. O’Thick was much impressed by the street signs of our city and asked the city engineer for samples that he might take back with him. He complimented the mayor on the parks of Lawrence and the way they are kept.”
• “A few years ago the world laughed at Jules Verne because he had a ship run under the sea, and the passengers were supplied with daily papers. No one reads Jules Verne now because he is too tame. Later H. G. Wells put out a story about the motion of a bees’ wings being copied for a flying machine. Now Edison says the principle is correct and has undertaken to develop it.”
• “June is the month of brides, but it is hard to see why. It is supposed to be the month of buds and blossoms, but that is poetic license. May is the month when nature springs forth full armored in her regal rigging. June is hot and sultry. The month of May is bright and open, spring is passing into summer and goes with a lightness and blitheness that is beautiful to behold. In this town June is the harvest time for Cupid because in this month the university closes and the cases that have been on tap all the year are closed up. But outside of Lawrence we have never understood why June was the month of brides.”
• “Quick work on the part of C. P. Brown, night watchman at the University, last night prevented what might have been a disastrous blaze in one of the laboratories of Snow hall. Brown was making his regular rounds of the buildings and had just come from the west end of the campus when he noticed a reflection against one of the windows of a laboratory in the northwest corner of Snow hall, second floor. He rushed in and found that the small gas lamp under an incubator had been left burning and the heat from the flame had caught the wainscoating and was rapidly getting headway. Brown caught up one of the hand fire extinguishers of which there are several on each floor of all buildings on the campus, and after persistent efforts put out the blaze. The rubber hose connecting the lamp with the gas pipe had burned off, causing a flame of gas to shoot high up against the wall to the ceiling. A considerable portion of the woodwork and of an experiment table was destroyed as well as part of the incubator which had been used in some special research work.”