From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 27, 1911:

• “The man who returns to Lawrence this fall after an absence of six months or a year will notice quite a difference in the appearance of the stores on Massachusetts street. Besides the new Innes building, there will be the new front at Weaver’s, the new front at Skofstad’s, the new second story front at Hester’s, the building now occupied by Innes remodeled for the Fischer shoe store, probably another new business, of which the Journal-World is not yet at liberty to speak, the new Perkins building, the new opera house, the new Bowersock mill, the remodeled Lawrence National Bank Building, the new Eagle building, the new Masonic temple, and doubtless many others that escape the writer’s memory at this time.”
• “D. O’Brien of North Lawrence brought in a twig of a plum tree this morning that has on it a large number of plums. Mr. O’Brien says that the tree from which this came is loaded with green fruit and he expects a good yield.”
• “Mayor S. D. Bishop today issued an order to the police department directing them to make a thorough investigation of the sanitary conditions of the city of Lawrence and where they find it necessary to order the owners of such places to see that they are cleaned up immediately and kept clean. This action was taken owing to the reports of contagious diseases that have come from other cities of the state and as a measure to guard against the same thing in this city.”