From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 22, 1915:

• “Otto Nelson, known in the ring as ‘Kid’ Nelson, formerly of St. Louis, is now making his home in Lawrence and is training here in preparation for a boxing contest in Oklahoma. Nelson has been here for some time and his trainer says he is in the very best of condition for the contest. He has had a number of offers for matches, but has been saving up for the Oklahoma event. Nelson is a lightweight and fights at 133 pounds. He is well known in the eastern boxing circles and they have been trying to get him to return but Nelson says he like the western country and will stay here.”
• “Winter weather returned to Lawrence last night when snow began to fall accompanied by a driving wind. The snow continued until about midnight and then the wind lessened in ferocity. Early this morning it began to fall again and continued most of the day…. Following the warm days of the first part of the month the cold and driving wind is noticed more than was the last cold which extended over several weeks’ time. The people became more accustomed to the cold and did not notice it. The weather man promises us more cold and snow for tomorrow although the temperature will not fall to any great extent. A temperature from 9 to 12 degrees has been maintained throughout the day.”
• “Orders have been issued to Superintendent Smith of the Lawrence High school by Dr. John Rudolph, county health officer, that no children having been absent from school on account of contagious diseases are to be re-admitted unless they present a physician’s certificate…. The members of a family where one member is sick with a contagious disease cannot attend school until it is ascertained that he is not afflicted also. This ruling is done for the protection of the children and the community at large and is the result of a few cases of Chicken Pox among the school children.”
• “Basketball followers will have an opportunity to witness a real demonstration of the sport when the Jayhawkers meet the Cornhuskers in Robinson gymnasium tonight. Both fives have been playing in excellent form this year, and the clash tonight is expected to furnish the fastest work that has been seen here this season…. Coach Hamilton has installed a new basketball scoreboard which will be tested out tonight. It has been placed in the east end of the gymnasium and shows the score in large, plain figures.”
• “Miss May Stevenson of the University extension department who was injured in a coasting party on the night of December 30 along with Emery McEntire, Leon Boeker, and several other University students, has recovered sufficiently to return to her duties in the extension department. Miss Stevenson sustained a broken arm when the bobsled on which she was riding collided with a taxicab on Indiana avenue. She is the first one of those injured to recover sufficiently to be able to get around again. She reports that all the other coasting victims are recovering.”