From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 16, 1915:

• “If J. W. Canavan, a rural mail carrier who was on duty at the Peerless garage at 5 o’clock last Sunday morning, had been of a more suspicious nature, the Lawrence police force might have had the capture of two automobile thieves to their credit. Two men, one tall and one short, came to the garage early Sunday morning and said that their car had run out of gas and that they wanted three gallons so they could run it in to the garage for more. They got the gas and a new container and didn’t pay for it, nor did they come back for more. Late Sunday afternoon the garage people happened to think that the incident might interest the police so they telephoned in the facts. Earlier in the day, however, the sheriff from Topeka had telephoned that a car had been stolen at Olathe at 1 o’clock Sunday morning and that Lawrence officers should be on the lookout. The stolen car was a Ford with a gray body and had a dent in the body over the right rear fender. The men who got gasoline at the local garage corresponded to the description of the thieves and local officers are confident that they were making away with the stolen car and came through Lawrence with it. No trace of them has been found.”
• “A new possibility of advertising Lawrence among prospective residents was discussed at the weekly meeting and luncheon of the Merchants and Farmers Association today. The advertising committee feels that with the advent of the interurban many families would be attracted to Lawrence as a place of residence, if their attention might be called to the many beauties and advantages of the city. While the plans have not been worked out as yet it is probable that some space will be used in the Kansas City dailies supplemented by the use of illustrated folders.”
• “The City police are trying to find a way to torpedo the Titanic restaurant at the corner of Eighth and New Jersey streets, which they believe is the center of disturbance in the East Bottoms. Chief of Police Fisher asked the county attorney this morning if an order could not be issued suppressing the place as a nuisance. Mr. Amick said nothing could be done with the information now available…. Although numerous complaints have been made of disturbances and carryings on at the place, the police are never able to get there before the lights are turned out and the frequenters have dispersed. They believe there is a system of lookouts in force in connection with the place that would do credit to a European army.”
• “Francis McCall, a student at the University of Kansas, was compelled much against his will to miss the football game Saturday. The reason was that the discovery had just been made that the cause of Mr. McCall’s indisposition from which he had been suffering a short time was a mild attack of smallpox. He was taken to the University detention hospital, and there he is making a rapid recover. McCall lived at the City Y. M. C. A., and there was a thorough fumigation of the dormitory rooms after he had been taken to the hospital.”