From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for May 25, 1913:

• “Mrs. Alex Banks has just achieved in the hatching line something that is unusual. Arthur Spalding put 14 duck eggs in an incubator and kept them there for three weeks when he sold them to Mrs. Banks, living near Lone Star. The eggs were securely packed and thoroughly warmed but were then carried in a wagon ten miles and put under a hen. After setting on them for a week the hen hatched 11 out of the 14 eggs. The ducks are entirely healthy and Mrs. Banks has an idea that hereafter she will have eggs put in an incubator for the first part of the time, and then hatch them under hens.”
• “The water analysis department of the university has purchased 25 insulated shipping retainers of the 3-H people and will use them to ship water over the state. The water shipped in this way will hold a temperature of 10 degrees for 50 hours…. Four pounds of ice are put in the insulators and these hold the temperature longer than any other known device.”
• “J. A. Barackman, one of the very few survivors of the battle of Gettysburg, was buried in Kansas City, Kansas, yesterday. Mr. Barackman was a member of the 7th West Virginia. Mrs. S. A. Bunn of Lawrence, a sister-in-law of the veteran, attended the funeral.”
• “The Lecompton schools closed today. The usual ‘Last Day’ exercises gave way to a play festival in which nearly the entire school took part. It was a novelty and made a decided hit.”
• “The discovery of a cistern filled with hard cider, on a farm near Bonner Springs, yesterday proved the solution of a mystery that has baffled the law enforcement officers of Wyandotte county for more than a year. The cistern was found by one of the prosecutor’s assistants, who has been in the neighborhood a week disguised as a farm hand. A chemist’s analysis showed that the cider was about 6 per cent alcohol.”
• “The management of Woodland Park feels the need of a woman at the Park to look after the visitors and assist in handling the crowds and a woman officer will be named soon. The policewoman will be a regularly commissioned deputy sheriff armed with all of the authority of a man.”