From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 21, 1916:

• “A ‘lookout’ who was too attentive to his duties gave away to the police the location of a crap game yesterday morning which they had been seeking for some time. As a result Officers Vaughn, Cooper, and McKissack raided a cellar at 1011 Massachusetts street yesterday morning and took in charge thirteen men…. The police have suspected for some time that a game was in operation in the 1000 block on Massachusetts street but they had been unable to locate it. Shortly before 3 o’clock yesterday morning Officer Vaughn flashed his light into a window in that block. A few minutes afterward the ‘lookout’ of the game stuck his head out of a door adjoining to see where the officers had gone. Officers Cooper and Vaughn saw him and concluded there was something up. They proceeded to the alley back of the store just in time to collar two students leaving by the back door. The students admitted that a crap game was in progress. Reinforced by Officer McKissack, the representatives of the law demanded admission. The ‘lookout’ said there was nobody about, but in the cellar the officers found ten men. Some of them were hiding behind boxes and bales of goods. ‘Come on, all of you,’ said Officer McKissack with an inclusive gesture. The crowd was taken to the police station and booked.”
• “‘It was a good thing,’ said Mr. Bullene this morning, ‘that I got to market when I did.’ Mr. Bullene returned yesterday from a trip to the New York market. Anticipating a shortage of goods he was about ten days early. That fact enabled him to buy what he wanted in a great measure and was an immense advantage over the bulk of the buyers who arrived later…. Prices in almost every line are advancing and will continue to do so. The dye situation, according to Mr. Bullene, grows more serious daily and promises to become very much more serious when the present supply is used up…. The Innes store will have the largest showing of ready to wear garments they have ever had for the spring season and Mr. Bullene says the reasonable prices will surprise customers who have been looking for the big increase in the cost of their new clothes.”
• “All danger from an overflow on the river seems past today. The water is falling rapidly and has gone down several feet from Saturday’s mark. Practically all the ice is now out of the river. All day yesterday crowds of people visited the bridge to watch the river and the workmen on the new bridge. It was necessary for the officer to continually move the crowds from the foot bridge. The ‘hoggers’ were put to work in the caisson again today, and the huge pile of concrete is sinking again into the river.”
• “The Gideons have come and gone, and as a result of their visit there is a Bible in every room in every hotel in Lawrence and in a number of other places that are not classed as hotels. The Christian traveling men filled the pulpits of Lawrence churches yesterday, and funds were there raised to pay for the 179 Bibles that were distributed in the afternoon. In all of the churches there was an explanation of how the Gideons came to be organized and what their particular aim is…. At every hotel in town sufficient Bibles were left to permit of placing one in every room. The Y. M. C. A. building was likewise supplied, and today there is a Bible in every cell of the city and county jails.”