From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 2, 1914:

• “One of the most daring robberies that has taken place in Lawrence in a great many years happened some time during the night last night when one of the plate glass windows of Sol Marks Jewelry Store at 817 Massachusetts street, was broken and the display window robbed. The burglar escaped without any one in the town knowing of the robbery until he had time to make good his escape. The night police made their regular rounds between three and four o’clock this morning and Officer Vaughn passed the front of the store and he says that there was nothing wrong when he passed. So the robbery must have been committed some time between the hour of three thirty and five o’clock this morning. The broken window was found by William Hayter when he was on his way home to breakfast this morning between five and six o’clock. Hayter is the turnkey at the city jail and he spends the nights there. It was very evident that the window had been broken with a brick as a brick with marks and scratches on it was found lying near the window. The burglar broke a piece about a foot square out of the lower corner of the display window and used a wooden paddle about three feet long to draw the valuables in the window through the hole. Mr. Marks said this morning that there was about $1,500 worth of jewelry in the window and most of it was taken. The valuables consisted of jewelry and cases…. Many of the people wonder at the burglar not being seen while in the act as there is seldom a time when there is not some one on the street, but people who happened to be up at about four o’clock say that it was very dark at that time. The moon had gone down and there were very few lights on the street, making it very easy to miss any one in the shadow unless special attention was drawn in that direction…. There are many theories as to who the burglar might have been. Some say that it could not have been any one that was not acquainted with the movements of the night officers and others say that any stranger might have come in and waited until the officers had passed and knowing that they would not return immediately did the work immediately after they had passed.”
• “Fire breaking out in the packing about the engine of H. F. Henry’s six-cylinder automobile, about a mile and a half this side of Vinland, this morning, burned all the wiring off, and damaged the machine to the extent of $500…. Mr. Henry and Joseph Daly were on their way to the fair at Vinland when the fire broke out.”
• “Lyman Hutchinson, of Randolph, Vermont, is visiting his sister, Mrs. Ruth E. Leis, 633 Indiana street. Mr. Hutchinson left Lawrence 51 years ago, immediately following Quantrell’s raid. The entire town was shrouded in smoke and the houses in ashes when he left. During the Civil War, Mr. Hutchinson served in the First Kansas Regiment of colored troops. Captain E. Huddleston, who was a captain in the same regiment, is the only officer of the regiment still living in Lawrence.”
• “W. E. Parker, foreman of the bridge building department of the Union Pacific, was killed this morning while at work on the track in Leavenworth county, about two miles from Lawrence. How he met his death is unknown…. Parker, who had considerable work near the place where his body was picked up, left Lawrence depot about 9:30 on a velocipede.”
• “Ralph Spotts has just returned from a trip to Clebourne, Kansas, and on his return, while at Manhattan, he met the young man who rode one of the motorcycles in the motor drome at the Douglas County Fair held here this year. Mr. Spotts recognized the man as being one of the men at the Fair and the man was walking on crutches and indicated that he had been hurt. When asked if he had been the victim of an accident while riding his motor cycle he said that he had, the accident occurring in Emporia, after they had showed here in Lawrence. The man was riding at full speed and the handle bars and pedals broke and he fell some little distance breaking two fingers and tearing off his left knee cap and scratching his face considerably.”
• “Following the investigations of E. E. Lyder, a member of the state staff of Chemical Research, into the salt deposits of Kansas, a report on the progress of the industry, containing a full and detailed account of the various deposits and plants, will shortly be issued. Mr. Lyder devoted the greater part of the summer to his investigations, and visited every salt bed in the state, to ascertain their extent and approximate values.”