From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 16, 1914:

• “After running the entire length of Massachusetts street from the Busch Seed company to the Court House Grocery, a team of horses belonging to Nicholas Alrz of Lone Star collided with a team of mules hitched to the Mutual Oil wagon in front of the Court House Grocery. The tongue of the oil wagon struck one of the horses in the shoulder and cut such a gash that the horse will probably die from loss of blood. One of the mules was struck in the shoulder by the tongue of the farm wagon and sustained a broken leg. It will probably have to be killed…. Mr. Alrz had just unloaded a load of wheat at the mill and had tied his team and gone inside to transact some business when the team broke loose and ran. Everyone along the street tried to stop the team but they were going at such a rate of speed that it was practically an impossibility. The horses kept the center of the street until they reached Watkins Bank, when they turned to the right side of the street. The driver of the oil wagon was off filling a gasoline tank at the grocery.”
• “And the first touch of winter came. It arrived Saturday evening with a stiff wind but do its best was unable to make any headway over Sunday. The wind blew hard but all it was able to do was to cool off the atmosphere.”
• “That awful drubbing Saturday will not affect Kansas’ attitude toward Missouri nor does it mean that the Tigers are going to come over to Lawrence and chew up the Jayhawk bird. It was admitted before the Nebraska game that the dope was against Kansas. Coach Wheaton realized it and made no extravagant claims. Nebraska had the best team it has had in years and for Kansas to be defeated by it was no flagrant disgrace. It is just a question of a 30-horsepower car trying to outrun a 60-horsepower machine. Kansas was outclassed. But the dope is different on the Missouri game. Outweighed 9 pounds to the man, Missouri has odds against her for Saturday’s scrap. However, Missouri had an easy game Saturday and the regulars took a day off whereas the Jayhawker squad fought its hardest game at Lincoln and though none of the men are hurt, numberless bruises and the psychological effect of a defeat will tend to offset the previous dope. So, all things considered, Kansas and Missouri will be closely matched when they come out on McCook Field Saturday afternoon.”
• “In deciding how much to give or what to give to the Kansas Belgian relief fund, the Kansas farmer is not required to ‘think’ in wheat or flour; he may select some choice pigs or calves and give them as his contribution to the great fund of food being raised. Word was sent to Chairman W. R. Stubbs of the executive committee of the fund from Lawrence yesterday afternoon that 145 barrels of flour had been contributed at the services of the Congregational church yesterday morning…. A call to the wage earners of Kansas to give at least one day’s wages to the fund for buying flour for the Belgian refugees, was issued last night by W. R. Stubbs…. ‘If every man or woman in Kansas would give at least one day’s earnings to this cause, it would save a child from starving this winter,’ said Stubbs. ‘That’s just what it means – a day’s pay in Kansas is another life saved in Belgium. I hope everyone will join – the day laborer, the clerk, the office manager, the school teacher, stenographer, teamster and the business men; lawyers, doctors, and professional men; the partners and stockholders in every business. The farmers will help too, by giving wheat, corn, pigs, calves or anything else that is raised on the farm. We’ll take care of it all, and every grain or penny will help. W. J. Tod, of Maple Hill, gave us two steers yesterday. We sold them for $50 cash. It only takes a little over a dollar to buy a sack of flour, and there was a lot of flour in those two steers.’… Haste is imperative, as the Belgians have already been suffering for days and weeks, and the suffering is more intense every day.”
• “The ten-day meeting being held in the First Methodist Church was full of the revival idea and was greatly enjoyed by large audiences yesterday…. Those who heard the morning sermon say it was one of the best pieces of word painting ever heard in Lawrence. The sermon was based on the stilling of the storm. With the natural poetic genius and power to command the proper adjectives which Dr. Coombs possesses, he riveted the attention of his audience as he described the storm followed by the calm. The application showed how the soul of man may be agitated as was the sea, and how the blessing of God gives peace and rest in forgiveness and salvation.”