From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 30, 1915:

• “The transmission of the human voice by wireless telephony from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast was yesterday added to the list of the world’s scientific miracles. This bridging of great distance and annihilation of great space for audible speech without wires was accomplished by means of methods and apparatus evolved and developed by the engineers of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, the Bell System. Seated at his desk in New York City, President Vail of the American Telephone and Telegraph company spoke into a Bell telephone connected by wires of the Bell System with the wireless tower at Arlington, Va., and his words were transmitted by wireless telephony to Marc Island, near San Francisco, Calif…. ‘Hello, Carty, this is Mr. Vail,’ said Mr. Vail into the transmitter at New York. By wire this first message went to Washington and then leaped into the air to the Pacific coast. Almost instantaneously came back the answer from Engineer Carty, and Marc Island: ‘This is fine, this is wonderful.’ The Atlantic and Pacific had been linked and made next door neighbors by wireless telephony. The demonstration was held by permission of the navy authorities at the radio stations, and the experiments were witnessed and verified by them.”
• “The editor of the Eudora News has been hearing talk of electric light service in his town and ventures to hope that it isn’t only talk. The news is in favor of getting the juice from Lawrence. ‘There is one big advantage that Eudora would have should it get electricity from Lawrence,’ says the News. ‘It would give us a twenty-four hour service, which is a thing we could not have should Eudora build its own plant.’ Editor Will Stadler is back of a plan to have the line built to Lawrence and have Eudora supplied with electric light before the winter is over.”
• “Word was received in Lawrence today that Katherine, the 12-year-old daughter of Mrs. Richard von Minckwitz of New York, who recently visited friends in Lawrence, was dangerously injured by falling under the wheels of a train while the return trip to New York was being made. The little girl, it was said, was dropped by a conductor during a hasty transfer to a different train in Indiana. She fell before the moving wheels and one leg was cut off. The girl is now in a hospital at North Vernon, Ind. Her mother, Mrs. Von Minckwitz, was formerly Miss Elizabeth Wilder, and was a graduate of the University of Kansas, taking her degree when only 18 years old. Her daughter was ready for the high school at 12 years, and her mother had expected to send her to the University after she had completed the high school course.”
• “R. G. Eyth has sold his interest in the Round Corner Drug store to his partner, Walter Varnum, who will continue the business. This was for years the Woodward drug store and is more than fifty years old. Mr. Varnum had been with the store several years before it was bought by himself and Mr. Eyth.”