From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 29, 1916:

• “Crops in this section never looked better according to every report received in Lawrence. Wheat harvest is moving along nicely and the last of the week will see practically all the grain in shock or stack. The quality and quantity is unusually good. Oats harvest has also begun and while this crop is not considered a money crop by the average farmer in this section, it would be more of a money crop this season than ordinarily. Several fields promise to yield 30 bushels per acre or better…. This has not been what is popularly termed a corn season … but the hot days of the last week are giving the corn an impetus that is causing it to shoot rapidly. A drive along the country roads shows many farmers plowing their corn for the last time, the corn reaching above the backs of the horses. As was noted yesterday, the potato crop in the Kaw valley also promises to be exceptionally good and the acreage is large.”
• “The joys of sweeping and washing are probably not so keen to any one else in Lawrence as to the trusties at the county jail, for these activities are in the nature of recreation for them, and means a chance to get out of a cell for a while. The men clean up things around the jail twice a day and do a first class job of it. When asked if they never made a break for liberty, Ike Johnson, the turnkey, replied that once in a while one of them did, but that more attempts of that kind were made formerly when they were marched off to work on the roads. ‘One of them went way up northwest one time,’ said Mr. Johnson, ‘but we got him back.'”
• “Harold Higgins tried to stop his motorcycle recently by putting his thumb in the chain. He does not recommend the plan as the experiment was not a success, and his thumb was painfully torn. The accident occurred when he tried to remove a twig that had caught in the sprocket, the end of his thumb being drawn into the chain.”
• “Announcement is made by the Summer Session of the two evenings of pictures of Antarctic scenes for July 12 and 13. These pictures were secured by the expedition of Sir Douglas Mawson and they are said to be the finest Antarctic pictures ever secured. Bird and animal life in that little explored region is shown extensively in the reels. The shows will begin at 8 o’clock each evening.”
• “The railroads today are rushing the plans for the transportation of the Second Infantry regiment, Kansas National Guard, to the [Mexican] border tomorrow…. Jubilation was expressed today over the fact that the Kansas troops are considered sufficiently well trained and prepared to go at once to the border instead of to Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, where they will be forced through a long, hard training period. Officers and men declared that sending them to Eagle Pass meant they would probably see actual service, if such becomes necessary, long before other troops who are sent to interior points.”
• “The county jail is running at one-third capacity these days, entertaining ten guests, while the maximum of bunks is thirty. In case there are more than thirty applications for admission, however, the authorities can find places for several more.”