From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for May 26, 1914:

• “The Union Pacific railroad bridge in North Lawrence seems to be rather an unfortunate place. Last night another victim fell from the bridge and sustained serious bruises. Mr. George Horn of Collinsville, Okla., and two other men were walking west to the harvest fields and as they were crossing the bridge, the sides being unguarded, Horn stepped off. He was taken to the Emergency Hospital. Only night before last another man walked from a train and fell from this bridge at the same place.”
• “Five thousand Kansas veterans of the Civil war are in Topeka today renewing old acquaintances formed during service a half century ago and attending the dedicatory services of the $500,000 Memorial building, erected by the state of Kansas in their memory. With them have come thousands of friends and relatives, interested alike in the veterans and in their last great reunion. Topeka is decorated to receive them, the streets lined with patriotic bunting and the residence districts covered with flags. To the old soldiers it is a gala day; to their friends it is an enjoyable experience; to Topeka it is an honor…. Eyes of all veterans are directed to the magnificent building at the corner of Tenth and Jackson streets…. It is a reunion that no soldiers in Kansas will ever forget and the picture of the great monument tendered by the patriotic people of Kansas will linger in the mind of each so long as the pulse beats. Six thousand of the 17,000 G. A. R. men living in Kansas are expected.”
• “This was the day for the preachers and their wives to picnic at Lakeview. But Rev. E. E. Stauffer, chairman of the arrangements, said this morning that the annual outing had been postponed because so many of the ministers were out of town. This is an annual affair of the Ministerial Alliance and they are anxious to have it when as many as possible can attend. As soon as it was learned that the picnic had been called off the good roads workers were hot on the trail of a number of the preachers to get them to labor on the roads.”
• “County Attorney J. S. Amick, Sheriff Cummings and I. C. Stevenson from the court house were among the road workers today.”
• “The Journal-World this evening presents to its readers its Dollar Bargain Day edition. The paper is laden with offerings that are all attractions. It is a safe proposition that anyone who cannot be satisfied on Thursday and Friday of this week will be hard to please. The merchants of this city in cooperation with the Journal-World have decided to make two grand selling days…. The Journal-World has taken pains to present these offerings in attractive style and this evening the paper is unusually interesting because it contains the announcements of bargains the like of which have never been seen in this city…. In order to show its appreciation of the out-of-town traders the Journal-World will be pleased to give tickets to the Patee Nickel to any of its country friends who call at the office for them. This is not an offer with any strings. Bring your whole family and take them to the Patee Nickel…. The new cooling plant installed recently will make this popular theater delightfully cool and it will prove an enjoyable resting place.”
• “Genuine summer weather is here today. At 2 o’clock the mercury had climbed to 88. Last night was warm and at 7 o’clock this morning the thermometer stood at 78. The forecast is for unsettled and probable showers.”