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

• “The city jail is a cheerless place, according to Paralee Walker, confined there last week after being sentenced in police court last week. Therefore Paralee would much rather be on the outside. This morning she sent in a note by one of the officers to Judge Albach asking for her release. Her note follows: ‘Please be so kind as to overlook me this time and turn me loose. If you will oblige me so, I will pay the rest of my fine by the first of February. This is a lonesome place here by myself. If so I will never give you any more trouble as long as you are a judge. I will behave myself if you will give me a chance.'”
• “Topeka. – Fear of trouble from floating ice in the Kansas river below Topeka was expressed today by the weather observer. He pointed out that a foot of ice remains on the river…. He asserted that with the temperature at 54 degrees an additional rise and a sudden thaw may cause a repetition of the trouble of several years ago when a number of bridges were carried away.”
• “The reports of threatened danger for the flow of ice below Topeka is of peculiar interest in Lawrence on account of the work of constructing the new bridge going on at present on the banks of the Kaw. Should an ice flow take place it would probably mean a serious handicap to the work…. The river is rising slightly this afternoon and there is some floating ice. At present, however, the condition is not of such serious nature as to be alarming. Men who have been close observers of the river and are acquainted with its whims, said today they believed there was not danger of a break-up of the ice.”
• “A section in window trimming is the latest addition to the program of the Merchants’ short course, which will be held at the University February 7 to 11…. Since window trimming has become recognized as one of the most important factors of success in the retail business, and few merchants have a full realization of its value, the authorities in charge of the merchants’ course decided they would secure speakers to conduct a course in the work each day. Window trimming for every kind of retail store will be taken up and discussed and experts will tell the merchants how to get the trims which help to increase sales.”
• “The meeting to have been held by the city commission today to consider the franchise asked for by the interurban line was postponed today on account of the inability of Mayor W. J. Francisco to attend the session. The mayor was taken suddenly ill with an attack of acute indigestion last evening. The first attack was the most serious and after it had passed he spent a comfortable night with only a few periods of suffering. In his weakened condition today he found it impossible to be at the city hall, but expects to be fully recovered by tomorrow.”
• “Win Newmark narrowly missed injuring a small boy on a sled while he was going north on Rhode Island street near Tenth street last night. The boy’s sled was attached to a farmer’s wagon going east on Tenth street with a fifteen foot length of rope. The wagon crossed the street in front of Mr. Newmark, who did not see the boy until he was upon him. The motor car was stopped just as it struck the lad, who got a hard bump but no injury. Mayor Francisco pointed out today that the practice of hitching sleds behind vehicles is forbidden by ordinance. He believes that parents should caution their children against the practice.”
• “Billy Sunday, evangelist, may come to Lawrence and speak at the University some time in April, if the committee on convocations at the Jayhawker school is successful in obtaining a date. Negotiations are now under way to bring the speaker to Lawrence, for one day at least, and it is believed that they will be successful as Mr. Sunday is particularly fond of addressing college men and women and will be in Kansas City at the time.”