From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 5, 1914:

• “O. A. Hanscome, one of the oldest and best known citizens of Lawrence, passed away at his residents, 1041 Kentucky Street, at 6 o’clock last evening, as a result of a paralytic stroke last Sunday. Mr. Hanscome was over 85 years of age. During the recent celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of Plymouth Congregational church, a dinner was tendered by the congregation to Mr. Hanscome, the only charter member of the church still alive. Back in the days when Lawrence was nothing but a collection of ‘hay’ tents, he first struck Douglas county. When Quantrell’s men broke a bloody trail across the county, Mr. Hanscome was one of the Lawrence survivors who sought to build from the smoking ruins of a town a newer, better, city. During his long life in Lawrence, the late Mr. Hanscome made many friends, socially and in a business way, who will feel deep sorrow upon learning of his demise.”
• “The condition of Belgium is pitiful. The little country has been overrun and left desolate. America is rich and it is our opportunity to show the brotherhood of man. The supplies now going forward are going for a good purpose but there are not enough going from Lawrence. Let us get busy on this and send in a big lot from this prosperous country. Belgium is a long ways off and that ought to arouse our imagination. Belgium is in dire need and that ought to arouse sympathy. Let us get busy. This relief project is lagging. Lawrence never has lagged in such things, it must not lag now…. C. C. Shaler received a letter Tuesday from his son, Millard K. Shaler, who is now in London, assisting in the effort to secure relief for starving Belgium, in which he declares that, notwithstanding the fact that the British government had removed the embargo on food to Belgium, the relief committee was experiencing great trouble in securing any adequate relief. Belgium is starving. The great armies, sweeping across it, have left a train of ruined fields behind them. Women and children are without food and daily pittances are doled out by the town committees. Everywhere there is pitiful destitution. This is the picture presented, and America is doing its utmost to aid…. The feeling in Lawrence is so marked that the Journal-World collections will be sent to aid the Belgian sufferers. If any person, who has given to the fund, desires his contribution to go for any other purpose, his wishes will be respected, but otherwise, all the Journal-World collections will be sent for Belgian relief.”
• “Profane or vulgar language in yells and songs are now under the official ban of the University Senate. Last night a resolution was passed condemning the naughty word in student outbursts of enthusiasm.”
• “It is ballots here, bullets in Europe. It is going to be hard for America to keep out of the war but we must. The country at large is for peace.”
• “The fields, the woods, there is the place. The world has never been so beautiful as it has been the last month. The writer has been out in the open a lot the last two months and the best thing we have had in the way of enjoyment has been the scenery. Kansas is a beautiful state but this fall it has eclipsed itself. Go out in the open you tired people and get rested. It is restful just to look at Kansas these days.”