From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 18, 1915:

• “A cloudy day and a breeze from the north brought many hunters into the office of the county clerk today, and tomorrow the ducks will surely suffer…. At noon today more than 400 licenses had been issued by the clerk and the county was several dollars richer. All professions are represented in the list and it is evident that the hunting instinct, which psychologists say comes down to every man from prehistoric times, is not on the wane. Farmers, bricklayers, paper-hangers, blacksmiths, lawyers, doctors, laborers, nurserymen, concrete workers, machinists and even school boys are on the lists and each of them has a little yellow slip signed by County Clerk Brocker, which gives him the right to shoot to his heart’s content provided he can find a farmer who is willing that the game on his land serve as a target.”
• “Mrs. Ray Johnson and her little daughter, Beatrice, had a narrow escape from death or serious injury on Tuesday afternoon when a team Mrs. Johnson was driving ran away near the Ince nursery. A part of the harness became detached and the horses started to run. The top surrey to which they were hitched was overturned after they had run a little way and Mrs. Johnson and her four-year-old daughter were dragged for some distance in the overturned vehicle and were then thrown out. The team crossed the Southern Kansas tracks barely ahead of a freight train just after the occupants of the surrey were thrown out. Severe bruises were suffered by both Mrs. Johnson and her daughter, but both are recovering rapidly from their injuries.”
• “Uncle Sam wants his employes to be well educated and he will give them time off if they want it to finish their school work. At least that is what he has done for Raymond Kellogg, a graduate of the University in the class of 1914 with an A. B. degree in zoology. Kellogg is writing his master’s thesis on the mammals of Kansas and he has been granted time off from the government service to finish his work. The thesis consists in a classification of the mammals of the state.”
• “The University Department of Journalism has just added two new linotypes to its printing plant. The machines are expensive ones and the added investment represented by the two new pieces of equipment is about $7,000.”
• “With the addition of several new specimens to the collection of birds at the University, in the museum on the second floor, the K. U. exhibit now contains practically every member of the feathered tribe that inhabits the state. The collection is open to the public and may be seen at any time in the museum.”
• “Governor Arthur Capper will be in Lawrence Sunday, the guest of the Bible School of the First Christian church. The governor will speak in the evening at 7:45 o’clock on ‘Training Boys and Girls in Kansas for Citizenship.’ The church Bible school is making arrangements for a specially big time because of the presence of the Governor of Kansas as its guest.”