From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 17, 1915:

• “Two hundred landladies, keepers of student rooming houses, met in Myers hall yesterday afternoon and drafted a set of rules to be observed by student roomers together with certain requirements for rooming house keepers…. The rules provide for certain requirements as to the amount of furniture there must be in a room, cleanliness, care of bath, etc. An attempt will be made to establish a more home-like atmosphere in student rooming houses and with this end in view, a rule was incorporated into the code for at least one downstairs room for the exclusive use of the roomers. Regulations were also adopted for the student roomers, prohibiting women from having mid-week dates or men from having late midnight gatherings. An attempt was made to requires all student roomers, men and women alike, to be in bed and all lights out by 10:30 o’clock, but this rule failed to carry.”
• “Few spectators at the Kansas-Hawaiian baseball games during the past two days realized that the Jayhawkers were up against an educated bunch of foreigners…. ‘We are all registered at the University of Hawaii and this trip is possible because we are allowed to take a leave of absence for one semester.’… The guests at the Eldridge House vouchsafe for the fact that the visiting team was exceptionally quiet and well behaved. Their only diversion was a Hawaiian ukelele, a four stringed musical instrument, emitting a peculiarly soft ragtime melody. A couple of the boys with Hawaiian blood were exceptionally good singers and occasionally sang several peculiar songs in their native tongue…. The way the men handled themselves on McCook backs their claim to education. There was little sharp talk and still less criticism of the officials…. The man talked in broken English but occasionally became so excited that the native words popped out in torrents. If there was any profanity, it must have been in a foreign tongue.”
• “‘The Clean-up Day should be instituted as a permanent thing,’ said H. W. Boltz, welfare officer, today in discussing the clean-up campaign still under way. ‘We have hauled fifty loads of dirt from the east side of town and about the same number from the west. We haven’t been able to touch the north end yet. A large part of this dirt removed has accumulated through past years.’ The work is still under way and will probably be finished Monday morning. Practically everybody in Lawrence co-operated with the officials to make the work a success.”
• “Mrs. W. E. Nevin sustained a serious burn on her left arm and slighter burns about the face in a gas explosion which occurred in her home at 923 Louisiana Street last night. The explosion occurred when gas accumulating in the oven, due to the fire being blown out, escaped and was ignited by the upper fire. Mrs. Nevin’s condition is not serious and she is recovering from the accident nicely.”