From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 18, 1916:

• “A 2,000 mile ride in a Ford car carrying nine people is the experience of C. Y. Longacre and his family of eight, formerly living at Strasburg, Mo. The Longacre family passed through Lawrence yesterday afternoon on their way to Billings, Mont., after leaving their Missouri home last Friday. ‘We hit mud,’ Mr. Longacre explained, ‘or we would have made better time.’ The family of nine were riding in a five-passenger car, and carrying with them a complete camping outfit, including a stove, several beds, and a large tent. Attached to their car was a two-wheeled trailer, covered with canvas, which carried the greater portion of their baggage. The members of the family were of all ages and sizes, from the parents, who filled the front seat, to the smallest of the children – a little fellow just big enough to get about. The girls wore gingham dresses and white caps; the oldest boy and his father wore overalls. The family expect to make the trip in about three weeks. They never stop at a hotel, but pitch their tent over the car and sleep outdoors, in addition to cooking their own meals. So complete was their equipment that a large oven was carried with the stove…. Transcontinental tourists are getting rather common in Lawrence these days. While the Longacre family were buying gasoline at a local supply station, H. E. Wilhite, a former resident of Lawrence who lived at 1206 Tennessee street, drove up in a car, enroute from Indianapolis to Los Angeles….. A third transcontinental tourist who stopped at the same supply station was J. H. Buxton of Topeka, who is en route to Portland, Ore. All three parties were traveling in Fords.”
• “The state board of health is giving its direct attention to the milk situation in Lawrence. Dr. D. F. Dean of the board of health came to Lawrence this morning to collect samples of milk from Lawrence dairies and to make a general survey of the milk situation in Lawrence. The visit is the result of tests made of Lawrence milk by the board of health last January. At the time a bad showing was made by the milk from several of the dairies. Dr. Dean’s work in Lawrence will be particularly to resample the milk from these dairies. The report of the board of health stated that the milk at Lawrence was worse than in any other town in the state. ‘It is particularly important,’ said Dr. Dean this morning, ‘to have clean milk in the summer time. The board of health will do what it can be insure this kind of milk for Lawrence.’ Dr. Dean stated that prosecutions would follow if it were found as a result of the tests that the milk of the dairies making bad showings last January had not improved. ‘We do not prosecute the first time,’ he said. ‘It is better to issue a warning and give a dairyman a chance to correct the bad condition. But after sufficient time has passed to make improvements and the bad conditions still prevail, prosecution is about the only thing left.’ There were only a few dairies, Dr. Dean said, which contributed last January to give Lawrence a bad name as regards the milk supply.”