From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 26, 1914:

• “This Thanksgiving Day Americans ought to be mighty happy. We have escaped a lot of things. First, we have escaped war and that is what caused the most apprehension. Then we have escaped pestilence. That has been a lot. Then we have had good crops. That is what fills our granaries. We have had good health, and we have a healthy public sentiment. It has been withal the greatest year in our history. Let us give thanks this day.”
• “The Haskell football team will leave today at noon for Kansas City where the Thanksgiving day games will be played with the Oklahoma team. A special train has been chartered and most of the Haskell students will accompany the team to Kansas City. A number of the Lawrence enthusiasts will also see the game. These teams are evenly matched and will probably put up the best game that has been played in the state this season.”
• “Last night about six o’clock the driver of the Wells Fargo express wagon was surprised in coming from the office to find that his horse and wagon were not in the place he had stationed them. After looking in all the possible places that his horse might have wandered, he came to the conclusion that someone had perpetrated a jest on him. The police were called to help in the search. The missing horse and wagon were finally discovered in the vacant lot back of the Bell telephone office.”
• “The university hospital has more than vindicated itself. It has performed a distinct work for the state that has heretofore been left undone. The talk of moving the hospital from Rosedale has subsided. It will be left there because that is the best place for it. The report just made shows that it is used by Kansas people to an extent not dreamed of when the school was established.”
• “Some of the country districts were canvassed yesterday for the Belgian Relief fund and the people responded to the call with liberal donations. Nick Thome, who was appointed to take charge of the east quarter of Clinton township, was among the people yesterday and he says that they responded very liberally when asked to help the fund. 150 pounds of flour and two bushels of corn with a total of $41.40 collected in a short time among the people. Several others have promised to bring wheat or corn to the mill where it will be exchanged for flour to be sent in the car from Douglas County.”
• “Washington. – While American navy officers have watched with critical eyes the deadly work of torpedoes fired from submarines and of contact mines in the European war, nothing has yet developed which indicates any radical change in battleship construction to offer greater defense against underwater attacks. The problems presented are not new. They have been studied by naval constructors of every power since the Russian-Japanese War when many fine ships fell victim to mines and torpedoes…. The heavy losses sustained by the British Navy by submarine attacks has brought up for renewed discussion the subject of armoring the bottoms of war craft.”