From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 15, 1916:

• “A large number of interested men and women filled the First Baptist church last night and heard Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, noted suffrage lecturer, tell why she was speaking in Kansas, where women already have the vote. Mrs. Catt is making a tour of the nation, and Kansas is the eighteenth state she has visited. She is ascertaining the sentiment in the states concerning a national suffrage amendment. Thirty-six states must be favorable before the amendment can carry…. In the opinion of Mrs. Catt the suffrage question can not be carried if it is made a party question, for no party alone can control the two-thirds vote required, or getting that, the additional ratification of the states. So the women are working to make the question a plank in every party platform.”
• “The campaign against cigarettes among the high school students is being carried on daily. Already a census of the school has been started to ascertain the extent of use of tobacco among high school boys. A report of the results of the census will be made at the next meeting of the Boys club. The petition being signed by the members of the High School clubs asking the dealers in tobacco to aid in discouraging the use of the weed among minors has found great favor among the high school boys. It will probably be presented to the dealers of Lawrence with a request for their signatures early next week.”
• “The first steps of the Kansas committee of the national naval consulting board to determine the state’s resources for industrial preparedness in case of war, were taken this morning at a meeting of the five committee members…. A survey of the resources of the state which could be utilized in case of war will be made at once. The survey will emphasize the food and mineral resources. Kansas agricultural products would play an important part in supporting an army and the mineral products such as zinc, lead and possibly salt are not contained in any other states in as large quantities as in Kansas. Chlorine gas, one of the weapons being utilized by the Germans now, could be made in unlimited quantities in Kansas. That industrial preparedness is not a war measure but a peace measure, was a point made by members of the committee.”
• “S. D. Flora of the office of the Topeka weather bureau was in Lawrence today to make arrangements to the establishment of an ‘evaporation’ station at the University of Kansas. This station will consist of apparatus which will be furnished by the United States weather service and will determine the evaporation in the state. Such stations are being installed in different parts of the country.”
• “Postmaster W. N. Collins of Kansas City has decided that Hubbard squashes must be inclosed in wooden crates or pasteboard boxes before being shipped by parcel post. The decision was made in response to an inquiry to Postmaster Collins from E. A. Haycroft of Lawrence, who asked if he could not ship his squashes without wrapping, merely pasting the address slip on the squash.”