- 100 years ago: YMCA swimming program catches on
- June 8, 2013
- “Some of the boys were rather timid at first and refused to get their feet wet.”
- 40 years ago: No art works damaged in KU museum fire
- June 8, 2013
- Four fire trucks had answered the alarm.
- 25 years ago: No evidence of graves found at planned roadway site
- June 8, 2013
- The city was planning to build East Hills Drive, an internal street in the industrial park, in about a month.
- 100 years ago: Many KU students sad to leave Lawrence
- June 7, 2013
- “These are ‘Good-bye’ days in Lawrence.”
- 40 years ago: Local woman proclaims appreciation of young people
- June 7, 2013
- “On television they say college kids are on dope. But these kids aren’t.”
- 25 years ago: Two-hour meters proposed for Mass Street
- June 7, 2013
- At a cost of $16 per meter, the replacement project would cost about $5,000.
- 100 years ago: Deputy county assessor takes his own life
- June 6, 2013
- “Mental derangement is believed to have caused the man’s action.”
- 40 years ago: County deeds office scanning old records
- June 6, 2013
- Some of the records went back to the 1800s.
- 25 years ago: State experiences weekend increase of runaways
- June 6, 2013
- More than 100 youths throughout Kansas were reported as missing.
- 100 years ago: Canoeing accident claims life of KU football star
- June 5, 2013
- “The news of the tragedy saddened the entire student body of the University.”
- 40 years ago: Boys’ Club to open after fundraising drive
- June 5, 2013
- The club was to be located on the third floor above the Duckwall store at 10th and Mass.
- 25 years ago: ‘Because without beer, things do not seem to go as well’: First legal brewery in a century to open downtown
- June 5, 2013
- The building was once an interurban depot and then a bus station.
- 100 years ago: Locusts re-emerge after 17 years underground
- June 4, 2013
- “The eggs which bore the countless billions of the brood that is appearing now were laid in the summer of 1896.”
- 40 years ago: At 50th reunion, Vinland alums recall skirt scandal of 1923
- June 4, 2013
- The girls of the class of ‘23 had started a petition for shorter skirts — with a hem ending at the knee.
- 25 years ago: Marina parking lot to be paved
- June 4, 2013
- A project to construct a paved parking lot at the Clinton Lake Marina was scheduled to start later this month.
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