From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Dec. 3, 1915:

• “George Kimball, the oldest man in Lawrence, passed quietly from sleep to death at his home at Vermont street this morning…. Mr. Kimball was 97 years, 6 months and 2 days old. He was born in New Hampshire, May 30, 1818, one of a family of fifteen children, all of whom lived to old age…. Mr. Kimball was for many years connected with the foundry business of Kimball Brothers in Lawrence. The old foundry building is even now being removed, after having been unused for a long time, to make room for other structures. Mr. Kimball was an expert cabinet maker and of a mechanical turn of mind. He was the inventor of a number of mechanical appliances, holding twenty or twenty-five patents on machines which he had devised. It was a gift that ran in the family, several others among the brothers being inventors…. Even after his retirement from active work, he retained his habit of constant industry. The barn back of his home he made over into a workshop and there he made many pieces of furniture of black walnut, a wood with which he was particularly fond of working. The turning out of finely finished work was his delight. He carved the newel post on the stairway in the R. E. Melvin home, taking three months to do the work. He selected the wood and made a music cabinet for Mrs. Melvin, spending most of a winter in completing a piece beautiful in design and finish.”
• “Standing in the yard of the home at 401 Maple Street, North Lawrence, where his divorced wife lived, Charles E. Hill sent a bullet crashing into his brain from a 38-caliber revolver this forenoon. His wife had been granted a divorce by the district court one week ago today. Hill was not killed immediately by the shot which pierced his brain. He was conscious enough to answer questions after Coroner H. T. Jones, who was summoned, had arrived…. ‘My wife had a divorce and was going to leave me alone in the world, and I didn’t want to live any longer,’ he said…. Hill and his wife separated early last spring and he had been living in an abandoned office building near the Union Pacific tracks, while his wife continued to live in their former home. His acquaintances and family say he had made frequent threats that he would kill himself and that he had attempted it once or twice before…. At the hospital it was said at 3 o’clock today that the wounded man was in a critical condition and probably would live but a short time longer.”
• “‘I have come to Kansas in behalf of the saddened homes, blighted lives and the hungry children of twenty-nine rum-cursed states and the shackled womanhood of thirty-six unenfranchised states,’ said Mrs. Flossie Slown Hyde of Chicago in an address to fifty Lawrence women Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Hyde is executive secretary of the Women’s National Prohibition Federation which has for its aim the enlisting of the 4,000,000 women voters of the United States to refuse support to any national political party that does not declare for national prohibition…. ‘Women must get into real politics and stand together not for isolated issues but on a platform of principles,’ said Mrs. Hyde and urged that the prohibition reform is the bone and sinew of the whole movement for human conservation.”
• “Sheriff W. J. Cummings this morning received word from LeLoupe, Kansas, a small town in Franklin county about twenty miles south of Lawrence, that a general store there had been broken into last night and sixty pairs of shoes and other articles stolen. While the local officers are not inclined to believe that the robbers will come this way they will keep on the lookout for them.”
• “Lansing, Kan. – Frank Long, the trusty prisoner who jumped from a wagon and ran away, Monday evening, is still at large. The bloodhound brought from Kansas City and put on his trail did not track him down. The hound took up the trail and tracked him to a creek and then picked up the trail on the other side, but chased some rabbits and lost it after getting into the underbrush.”