From the Lawrence Journal-World for June 2, 1915:

• “People of the town complain that tramps who happen to be going through Lawrence have gotten into the habit of robbing ice boxes and taking everything they could get. A number of people in the west part of town have made this complaint. It has only been in the past few days that the people have been bothered in this way but they are already weary of the practice of feeding tramps in this manner.”
• “There is not more than one person in a dozen residents of Lawrence to whom the exhibit of handiwork and cooking at the Manual Training School will not be a surprise. Whoever is skeptical on this point is invited to visit the Manual Training building tomorrow, tomorrow night and all day Friday. A study of the exhibit prior to its arrangement for public inspection convinces the reporter that about one-half of those who visit the exhibit during the two days will refuse ‘offhand’ to believe that all the cabinet work and other woodwork, the cookery, the sewing and the drawing there is to be seen are not the products of professional workers in wood, experienced housekeepers, vocational seamstresses and drawing masters…. Go and look at all these things and know by knowledge as well as by faith whether the manual training department earns the taxes that are put into it.”
• “Mr. H. T. Martin, Assistant Curator in charge of the Paleontological collection in the University Museum, has just received in exchange from W. D. Matthews, the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, a series of finely executed plaster casts of several rare forms of early animals, the types of which are preserved in the American Museum. Parts of fifteen animals are represented in the shipment received.”
• “A sneeze yesterday morning brought Miss Julia Allen, daughter of C. W. Allen of Perry, to the G. W. Jones hospital in Lawrence for the removal of a pin that was drawn violently down the windpipe by the in-rushing air following the sneeze. Undirected efforts to remove the pin resulted in intense pain, with no results except to imbed the pin. It was impossible to locate the pin otherwise, and remembering that there is a powerful x-ray transformer at the Jones hospital Miss Allen was taken there and the pin was immediately located by its use. Dr. G. A. Hamman removed the pin this forenoon at the hospital.”
• “An idle hour may be profitably spent by going down to South Park tomorrow evening and listening to the First Regimental Band, under the direction of Prof. Rigdon. The program in full the Journal-World published several days ago. It is a medley of classic and popular music. There is no better National Guard band in the state than the home band, and it is continually improving.”