Local writer Sarah St. John pulls from the Journal-World archives to compile reports of what it was like to be in Lawrence decades ago.
From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 5, 1915:"Plans are all complete for Lawrence's big celebration at Woodland park today and the weather bids fair to be all that could be desired. Big crowds are coming into the city from surrounding towns and the homes of citizens and business ...
From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 4, 1915:"Monday next from twelve to twenty members of the Ottawa Country Club will be in Lawrence by invitation of the Lawrence Country Club, and the golf teams of the two clubs will play on the Lawrence links adjacent to the Country Club House. ...
From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 3, 1915:"City officials do not anticipate any difficulty from breaking of the city sane Fourth ordinance, either tomorrow or Monday but they do intend to enforce that ordinance to the letter and to see to it that all people and visitors are ...
From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 2, 1915:"People who live in the business district along Massachusetts street, are complaining that boys with a premature idea of when to celebrate July 4, are making night hideous with noise. One woman said that last night she was kept awake by ...
From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 1, 1915:"John Weidman, 13 years old, son of Wm. E. Weidman, a laborer employed by Graeber brothers and living at 167 Lake street, was drowned in the Kaw below the Bowersock dam last night between 6 and 7 o’clock. He could not swim.... Weidman and ...
From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 30, 1915:"The wet weather seems to be affecting the minds of the light fingered gentry throughout the country according to local observers and the thieves are stealing all manner of useless things. Yesterday a Lawrence colored man stole a ladies ...