From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 30, 1916:

• “Several hundred young women students of Kansas University will spend part of their May Day holiday next Monday in Robinson gymnasium engaged in the task of dyeing 3,600 yards of cloth to be used in the May Pageant the afternoon of May 12 in Marvin Grove north of Potter Lake. Ordinarily the cloth would have been purchased already colored, but this year because of the war prices on dyes, it was found much cheaper to have the work done here.”
• “The Douglas County Fair association will be a member of the Kansas-Missouri Grand Circuit again this year, according to action taken in a meeting of the directors held yesterday afternoon. This action insures for Lawrence races equal to or better than those of last year…. Six trotting events and five pacing events will be included in the racing show which will be presented to the people of Douglas county. After a discussion in the meeting yesterday it was decided that these races might be seen for the nominal price of twenty-five cents…. By this action of the board Douglas county people are insured the opportunity of seeing a first class fair without the trouble and expense of traveling a long distance to do so.”
• “Starting in the University as a means of enforcing the rules against smoking on the campus, the present crusade against tobacco using has spread to the town through the High school and is now taking hold of the Business College students. A number of Business College students yesterday added their names to the petitions asking dealers’ co-operation in enforcing the law concerning the purchase of tobacco by minors. These petitions will be presented to the dealers probably this afternoon.”
• (4/27)”Miss Lucy Richards, a sophomore in the University of Kansas, died suddenly at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon of acute heart trouble, after exercising on the women’s athletic field south of the gymnasium. Although Dr. Alice Goetz and Dr. James Naismith were summoned immediately Miss Richards fell to the ground unconscious, their efforts to restore her were unavailing. The pulmotor of the University gymnasium and the lungmotor at the city fire department were taken to the University and used in the efforts to resuscitate Miss Richards, and a number of physicians were summoned. But in a short time after the young woman collapsed life was pronounced extinct by the physicians.”
• “E. C. Bussing, secretary of the Farmers’ Institute, brought a hog to market this morning which was one of the largest sold in Lawrence for many months. The hog weighted 725 pounds. It was only two years old. The price paid at the Santa Fe stock yards was $65.18. Jacob Badsky, the purchaser, said the hog was the largest he had bought in thirty-seven years’ experience.”