From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 23, 1916:

• “An ice jam which is causing some concern among the men in charge of the new bridge construction over the Kaw river began forming about a mile above the dam Saturday. Apparently most of the ice that had covered the river between Topeka and that point is now piled in a jam extending a half mile up the river from the initial point. Considerable alarm was occasioned when the men in charge of the bridge work first heard of the jam Saturday night. It was feared that the water would pile up back of the jam and eventually force it down the river, causing a rise that might be damaging to the property of the bridge company scattered about on the flat west of the present fill. A hasty inspection of the jam was made by the bridge foreman at 11 o’clock Saturday night, after farmers upstream had given warning that it was forming. It was found that the ice appeared to be piled five or six feet high above the level of the river…. After a careful examination of the ice gorge the bridge workmen decided there was nothing they could do about it, and work went on as usual today in the yards north of the river…. ‘A thing like the ice jam is all a part of the day’s work,’ said one of the men in charge. ‘It might come down in such a way as to do us a lot of harm, and we might escape without damage. As there is nothing we can do to head it off, we may as well go ahead with our work.'”
• “There was great handshaking and reminiscing at the University of Kansas this afternoon when Fielding H. Yost, one time football mentor at K. U. – it was in the ever-victorious year of ’99 – returned to the scenes of his triumphs in the end of the last century and greeted the old friends of that time who still remain on the hill. ‘Uncle Jimmy’ Green was the first man hunted up…. and then there were W. E. Higgins and a dozen others, who had rejoiced with Yost while he was cleaning up the valley for the honor and glory of Kansas in ’99…. Today’s visit was the third that Coach Yost has made to Lawrence since he ended his coaching days here. They have been busy years the coach explained today, as they may well have been for anybody who held the job of chief mentor at Michigan for more than a decade. Coach Yost came to Lawrence from the Kansas oil fields where he spent a couple of weeks…. The coach admitted that he is interested in the oil business. ‘It is harder to follow than football,’ he declared. ‘There are more tricks in it than football ever had and the way they mix up the signals on you will outpoint anything that ever happened on a gridiron.’ Coach Yost said he is expecting to make a good showing next season at Michigan. But he added that so many things can happen to the men he is counting on between spring and fall that he has really very little idea of how his team will look at that time – indicating that football conditions at Michigan and Kansas are not greatly dissimilar.”
• “Trains No. 1 and 10 which have hitherto been known as the ‘Overland’ will in the future be designated as the ‘Scout,’ according to the information received at the local Santa Fe office. The official name of trains 9 and 12 were changed recently from the ‘Flyer’ to the ‘Navajo,’ but few people have learned to so call it. The trains are referred to by numbers in train orders and the names given are principally for the convenience of patrons.”
• “C. A. Vaneil, vice president of the Bible department of the Kansas Gideons, was in Lawrence this morning looking over the situation here having in view the placing of Bibles in the transient rooming houses and hotels of Lawrence. The Ministerial Alliance will probably take the matter up at the next meeting and aid in the work.”