From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 4, 1916:

• “The echoes of the K. U. song, ‘The Crimson and the Blue,’ actually will be heard from the Atlantic to the Pacific Saturday night on the occasion of the transcontinental Kansas University reunion…. Arrangements have been completed for the installation of 500 telephones in Robinson gymnasium for the use of Lawrence people who will enjoy Saturday night’s novelty affair. At 6:30 o’clock, New York time, the Kansas alumni in New York will join together at the Hotel Marie Antoinette, Broadway and Sixty-Sixth street. The 175 Jayhawkers who are expected to be present will start their dinner…. When this is completed at New York at 9 o’clock it will be 8 o’clock in Kansas and 6 o’clock in San Francisco, and at these times the telephone reunion proper will start. First, the 500 persons at telephones in Lawrence, and the 175 at New York and the 35 at San Francisco will hear the exchange of greetings…. Chancellor Strong’s five-minute address will be followed by the reading of resolutions…. Then will come the singing of ‘The Crimson and the Blue,’ the first verse sung by the New Yorkers, the second verse by Lawrence and the third by San Francisco Jayhawkers…. That hearing will be good Saturday night is almost a foregone conclusion, for the Bell telephone people are sparing no pains in making the demonstration of transcontinental efficiency a distinct success.”
• “What is claimed to be the first anti-cigarette club ever organized in an American university, held its initial meeting last night. Following a talk by Prof. W. A. McKeever, of the K. U. department of child welfare, plans for the work of the organization were discussed. The creation of a student sentiment against the deadly pills, and help in the enforcement of University campus non-smoking rules are immediate objects of the club. It is possible that later, steps will be taken to stop the illegal sale of cigarettes by Lawrence dealers, but this will not be done immediately.”
• “Somewhat fewer than 2,000 votes had been cast in the city election up to 3:30 o’clock this afternoon. It was expected by persons interested that the total would run somewhat lower than the vote at the city primaries, as a less active campaign has been made to get the vote out for today’s election. The voting during the morning was slow, but interest picked up this afternoon, and it was expected that between 4 o’clock and the closing of the polls at 7 o’clock the total vote cast would be increased considerably.”
• “In three boys who were arrested yesterday, county officers believe they have the robbers of Henry Corder’s store at Midland Sunday night. Two boys seventeen years old and another fifteen years old were arraigned last night before Justice J. W. Clark on the charge of burglary and larceny and their preliminary hearing was set for Thursday morning at 9 o’clock…. When news of the robbery reached the sheriff’s office, Deputy Sheriff Wilson Schneck went to Midland to investigate. He learned that three boys had been loitering about the store Sunday afternoon. Entrance to the store had been gained by removing carefully one of the large front windows…. One of the boys admitted after some questioning that he knew where some goods were hidden. He led the officers to a cache a half mile west of the Eighth street pavement. There in a hole in a bank carefully covered with brush and tin were three bags containing cigars, tobacco, toilet articles, razors, knives, shoes and other stock that had been taken from the Corder general store.”