From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 8, 1916:

• “Many happy, smiling, gurgling babies gathered at the Presbyterian church yesterday afternoon, all accompanied by their mothers and many by their grandmothers, for the examination that is the main feature of baby welfare week. The church parlors were conveniently arranged for the work…. Dr. Lydia De Vilbiss greeted each baby with a smile. ‘How old?’ she asked the mother as she moved her fingers lightly from the baby’s shoulders to its toes. ‘Isn’t he a darling!’ she exclaimed as she stepped back in admiration. ‘Just a perfect baby,’ and then she would begin the examination. Later she exclaimed, ‘The babies have very rough skins, nine out of ten babies have rough skins. Lawrence certainly needs better water. The Lawrence babies are fine and the records are high.’… Not all the babies realized it was examination week for them. ‘It is a shame to have to take off 10 per cent for conduct and bad temper, but two children were very bad, which shows poor training in the home. The older babies may be a little frightened and make a fuss, but the older children and all that are in good health should take the examination without making any noise at all,’ said Dr. DeVilbiss.”
• “Hon. J. R. Topping was dangerously and perhaps fatally injured at his home on the California road west of Lawrence yesterday afternoon, when his clothing caught in the flywheel of a gasoline engine. Mr. Topping was drawn between the engine and the side of the engine house. His right arm was broken at the shoulder and the elbow…. Mr. Topping was unconscious when he was discovered by members of his family, and did not regain consciousness until five hours afterward. Dr. E. R. Keith and Dr. H. T. Jones were summoned at once and gave all possible care to the patient, but said the injuries were such that there was only a slight change that Mr. Topping would recover. Mr. Topping had been in Lawrence earlier in the afternoon, and had talked with a number of friends on the street. Returning to his home he had gone to the engine house alone to start the gasoline engine. His overcoat became entangled in the flywheel after the engine started and he was jerked into a narrow space between the engine and the wall…. Mr. Topping is widely known in Lawrence and over the county. He was state representative from the western district of the county in the legislature of 1913.”
• “The Douglas County Horticultural Society will meet Saturday, March 11 at the home of N. H. Bailey, 1112 Delaware street. A picnic dinner will be served at noon. The business session will commence at 1:30. The principal subject for discussion will be: ‘Is it possible to grow and sell $5,000 worth of truck on fourteen acres in a year?'”
• “Four former K. U. students who were identified with the K. U. department of journalism within the past few years, recently have secured substantial boosts in the way of newspaper jobs. Richard Gardner is now manager of the night bureau of the Associated Press at St. Louis. Leon Harsh is writing paragraphs for the Minneapolis Tribune. Omar Hite is head copy editor on the St. Louis Republic, and Harry Wilson is space buyer for a large Chicago advertising agency.”