From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 28, 1915:

• “Many nationalities and ages of men and women come to the University of Kansas by proxy, the absentee fifth class…. Since the University pioneer extension student, Earl J. Parks, of Burlingame, registered in October 1909, correspondence enrollment has increased rapidly until the total number is now more than 2200…. Probably, you would like to know just why the men and women who do correspondence work at the University cannot attend. Various reasons are given for their absence. Some of these students are pedagogues – school teachers and superintendents – others think themselves too old for active student life at the University – rallies and nightshirt parades offer no poignant allurements for those who have already passed the allotted years of their lives. One enthusiastic woman of 78, however, thinks she would heartily enjoy a Fox Trot or a Grape Vine as well as any freshman.”
• “The museum at the University has on display a representation of the Pterodactyl, one of the most remarkable of extinct reptiles. Its fore limbs are extended into batlike wings over twenty feet from tip to tip in the largest of the species…. The bones were very thin, hollow cylinders, and very light. One nearly complete skeleton, measuring eighteen feet from tip to tip of wings, weighed only five pounds in its fossil condition…. Owing to the delicate construction of the bones, they are rare fossils and area nearly always crushed flat.”
• “A test hole is being drilled by Graeber brothers on the paper mill property at the foot of New York street, between the Santa Fe railway right of way and the water front. It is expected to be from thirty-five to forty feet deep when bedrock is struck, and a profuse and permanent flow of clear water assured. If all the conditions disclosed by the test hole are favorable, and they can hardly be otherwise, a sixteen-foot shaft will be sunk at that spot, from which water will be taken for all the needs of the paper mill. As at present, more or less water will be taken directly from the river, but the purpose of the new supply is to be independent of the river when the water is foul because of flood or other untoward conditions. In such instances the well that is to be sunk will be relied upon.”
• “If the plans of the Douglas County Fair Association work out Lawrence may not only have the best fair in many years, but also have a new grand stand at the fair grounds, new racing stables, and a made-over race track that will be a credit to the association…. The present sun exposed bleachers are entirely inadequate and people interested say that it will never be possible to get the right kind of a crowd out as long as they have to sit in the sun.”
• “Clerk of the district court, Charley Moss, says that he must have stayed in California too long for he is about sick since he came home while he never felt better in his life than while on the coast. Mr. Moss has been suffering with a slight summer cold…. Many people in the city have been suffering from summer colds and lay it to the humid weather and the cold nights.”