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

• “Mrs. Martin Gulley struck Mrs. Elva Arnold with an umbrella this morning as the latter was standing, her child in her arms, in the hall outside the police court room at the city hall. The blow cut a gash in Mrs. Arnold’s forehead which bled profusely. Clair Ritter, who was standing near, snatched the child from Mrs. Arnold’s arms when she saw the attack. Mrs. Gulley would have followed up her onslaught had she not been seized. The attack was made following a continuation of the police court case against Martin Gulley and Mrs. Arnold who were arrested by the police Saturday on an indecency charge. Officers say the arrests were made at Mrs. Arnold’s home on Alabama street.”
• “The Santa Fe railroad has filed a complaint with the city officials that a number of Lawrence boys are in the habit of using the Santa Fe yards for a playground at night. As there is considerable night switching in the yards it is a dangerous proceeding. The road asks the police department to use its influence to get the boys to stop their trespassing in the yards.”
• “Officials of the Missouri Bridge company, constructing the county bridge over the Kaw river, held a conference with the county commissioners today and informed them that one of the other of the bridge projects now under way across the river would have to be halted until the danger of flood damage has passed. The commissioners were informed that if the big bridge across the river is to go on to completion without interruption, the completion of the interurban’s piling bridge across the river must not be allowed. Or, if the commissioners insist that work on both bridges continue, they were told that they would have to assume the responsibility for any damage that ensues on account of the presence of the interurban bridge across the river.”
• “Albert J. Haken, a K. U. sophomore, has inaugurated a new way of earning his way through school. He has secured an automobile agency and intends to sell cars to raise expense money.”
• “E. McCain, a sandhog working on the new river bridge, lost $9 in money while changing clothes in the ‘hog house’ last night. McCain could not tell how the money came to be missing. Four other bridge workmen were in the hog house with McCain at the time the money was missed. They voluntarily accompanied him to the police station. There they were questioned and released as there appeared to be no reason for holding any of them.”
• “DO YOU KNOW THAT: Life is a constant struggle against death? Dirty refrigerators may make sickness? The U. S. Public Health Service issues free bulletins on rural sanitation? The defective citizen of today is ofttimes the unhealthy child of yesterday? Every man is the architect of his own health? It’s the baby that lives that counts? Tuberculosis is contagious, preventable, curable? The full dinner pail — the open window — the clean well — make for health?”