From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 17, 1916:

“The dental office of L. H. Frink, upstairs in the People’s State bank building, was robbed during the lunch hour yesterday while Dr. Frink was absent. Access was gained to the safe and the thief took between $50 and $60 of dental gold and other valuable supplies from it. No trace was left that would give the officers any clue to the identity of the thief. When Dr. Frink went out to lunch he closed the safe but did not turn the full combination on. When he returned the safe was standing open and the door of the workroom, which had been left locked, was also open.”

“George ‘Sod’ Carter attempted suicide this morning about six o’clock at a fishing camp on the river by cutting his throat. Though he severed his wind-pipe and cut several minor veins and arteries, the jugular vein escaped; and after being attended by Dr. H. T. Jones, the patient will probably recover. He is now at the Social Service hospital, where Dr. Jones is attending him. Carter had been despondent for several days before going on a fishing trip with companions two days ago. While two of the party, Charles Brown and Albert Burns, were out on the river early this morning tending their lines, Carter went inside their cabin and cut his throat. His companions found him a short time later when they returned. Sheriff W. J. Cummings and Dr. H. T. Jones were summoned at once, and they raced to the camp, which is just over the line in Leavenworth county. Dr. Jones worked with Carter until the patient was able to be brought to town.”

“The matter of getting the two telephone companies together in Lawrence so there will be one system instead of two has been agitated for several years and now seems possible of accomplishment…. Under the ruling of the federal courts some years ago the Missouri & Kansas, or Bell company, cannot purchase the property of competing companies, and it is doubtful if the Bell company would sell out right to the Home for fear of losing its toll business…. So far the matter has simply been talked with the business men of the town, but matters are now getting into such shape that the companies will soon have a proposition to submit to the City Commission.”

“The city commissioners are considering the appointing of Ellis T. Johnston of 1112 New Jersey street to be milk inspector of the city of Lawrence. Mr. Johnston is a man of experience in the dairy business…. It is said the chief difficulty in the way now lies in finding funds to pay an inspector’s salary.”

“The free moving picture entertainments being given in Fraser chapel by the University Summer Session management are becoming increasingly popular. Six hundred attended the program yesterday afternoon, and the crowds promise to grow larger with each performance.”

“Thelma Irene Owens, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Owens, died this morning at the Owens home, 617 Massachusetts street. The little girl was one year and eight months old. Bronchitis, resulting from whooping cough, caused her death. Services were conducted at the home this afternoon by Charles W. Orrick. Interment was at Maple Grove.”

“American troops crossed the border below Brownsville [Texas] this afternoon and immediately were engaged in fighting, according to a report…. The brief report did not state whether the force opposed to the Americans were bandits or Mexican troops.”