From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 20, 1915:

• “MANY ARTICLES DISAPPEAR STRANGELY – No Trace of Thief Who Comes Daily Can Be Found By Students – Thief Enters Residence At 821 Mass. Every Day and Evades Detection Easily. – With umbrellas, laundry, handbags and other personal property disappearing from different rooms in the house while persons are working in adjoining rooms, people are wondering each day what part of their property they will have when the day is ended. There seems to be no certain time of the day or night that the articles are taken from the house. Sometimes it is in the early part of the morning, sometimes it is in the night and at other times it is during the middle part of the day. Umbrellas seem to have been the article that has been in the greatest demand as six of them have been taken at different times during the year…. Miss Lucile McCormick, another student at the University, went home one evening during the winter, and laid her handbag on a table in the front room while she went into an adjoining room to deposit some articles of clothing. When she returned her handbag was gone…. On another occasion a laundry wagon left a package of laundry on a couch in the front room of the house for Mrs. Cady. When Mr. Cady went to get the package later in the day it was gone…. When one of the umbrellas was taken from the second floor of the house, Mr. Cady was studying in the room next to it. Rain was falling outside and Mr. Cady had just returned from the University leaving his wet umbrella in the hall, but when he went to get it a short time later it had disappeared…. The house is located on a corner where there is a great many people constantly passing, and Mr. Cady who has lost most of the property that has been taken believes that some one who is acquainted with the house has used this as a shield to enter the house at his pleasure.”
• “Identification cards will be attached to the registration slips of students of the University when they return to their work on the Hill in September. Arrangements have been made by Registrar George O. Foster. The cards will be the receipt of the students for fees and at the same time will be for his use in identification…. The change was made by the authorities of the University because of the large number of forgeries and bad checks that have been passed in Lawrence in the past due to the lack of any way to identify students at the University from other persons…. With the new system of identification cards the possibility of professional crooks coming to town and cashing checks under the guise of being students will be eliminated, or the chances of loss at least lessened.”
• “Lawrence Merchants don’t like the dray wagons which stand in front of their places, so they are going to try to put the conveyances on side streets. At the regular meeting of the Board of City Commissioners this morning a petition for an ordinance to govern the practice was presented. The petition, which was signed by a number of Massachusetts street merchants who object to dray wagons standing in front of their places of business, was brought up and after much discussion referred to the mayor…. The dray wagon problem has been bothering merchants, particularly those on the east side of the street in the 700 block for some time and the complaint is often made that the wagons prevent farmers and customers in automobiles and buggies from stopping at the stores to shop since they cannot get up to the curb.”
• “The new police ordinance which provides that the salaries of city policemen be raised from the present rate of $55 a month for the first six months and $65 thereafter was passed…. New Lawrence cops will now have five dollars a month more to help support their wives and kiddies.”
• “A large gathering of people enjoyed the free motion pictures exhibited by Dr. E. E. Sonnanstine in South Park last evening. Several reels of finely colored motion pictures showing the United States Navy battleships, and army life were exhibited, besides 100 slides showing European general war conditions. The people there were all greatly interested in the pictures.”
• “The free employment bureau at the Y. M. C. A. is unable at the present time to secure many jobs for high school boys and it will be some time before they can as the farmers are not hiring any one at present because of weather conditions. However, a number of people have little odd jobs that they can do and are daily calling up the association and securing them to do the work…. Secretary Bolz says they will do the work cheaper and better and that anyone having work that they could do to notify him as it will keep them from loafing around where they are liable to get into mischief.”
• “NOTICE. – The party who took the coat from the rear of Dick Bros. store is known. If coat is returned no questions will be asked. Otherwise the police will take care of the matter.”