From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 30, 1914:

• “The city commissioners at their regular session this morning passed a garbage ordinance that will compel every householder in Lawrence to provide cans and boxes for the disposition of garbage and pay for having it hauled away. That is unless they carry it away themselves. They have that option. The ordinance provides that not more than 10 cents a week shall be paid by each family to the scavenger. Boarding house keepers and hotels must pay not more than 25 cents per week. The ordinance provides that the city shall be divided into districts, and bids received from those who wish to haul away the garbage. These scavengers shall receive their pay from the individual householders so that the collection will not be paid for by the city. The law provided that the refuse shall be removed every other day during the months of June, July, August and September, twice a week during the remainder of the year. Within thirty days from the time the ordinance goes into effect each family must provide a steel or iron receptacle that is water tight for the disposition of all slops and kitchen refuse. A wooden box must also be provided not smaller than 2x2x1 1/2 feet. The latter shall be used for rubbish and other litter.”
• “If you have an income large enough to be taxed by Uncle Sam and have overlooked the matter of making a statement of it — better do so today, or tomorrow you will be liable to the government. Today is the final day for the payment of income tax assessments. Persons who still ‘hold out’ will be carefully looked up by revenue collectors and prosecuted. There are multitudinous ways in which the government may ascertain your income. Your banker dare not deny the government the privilege of looking over the bank’s books. If your attorney is managing an estate for you, he must tell the government agent all he knows of your income. An all seeing eye has the government — so far as incomes are concerned, and tax dodgers are given small mercy.”
• “It seems a hard matter for the merchants to get together on the proposition of closing their stores on the Fourth of July which happens to fall on Saturday this year. Some of the merchants have expressed their intentions.”
• “Today has been rather showery. The rains came after 8 o’clock, but the result was several good showers. The farmers are glad to have it for their corn and grass. The wheat harvest is all over and the farmers are now threshing their largest yield of wheat. They expect to also break the record on corn.”
• “The Kansas wheat crop is 154,000,000 bushels according to a report issued by F. D. Coburn. is is sixty millions greater than any previous crop…. The report is based on a full crop of eighteen bushels to the acre…. The indications are it will be the best crop year in the history of the state.”