From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 13, 1915:

• “Lawrence arose early today and opened its eyes to see a clear sky and perfect football weather. By 8 o’clock the streets were beginning to fill and in the student district and at the University many old grads were parading in cars or walking over the campus and the familiar streets. As the morning advanced the football spirit grew and at noon the city was taken by the factions of the rival camps…. The Nebraska team, accompanied by Coach Jumbo Steihm, arrived shortly before 11 o’clock from Kansas City where they spent yesterday preparing for the contest. Confidence is literally oozing from the Nebraskans and none of them will be contented with a victory by a margin of less than 21 points, they say…. The streets of the city are gayly decorated in the colors of the two schools, and the red and white is everywhere intermixed with the crimson and the blue. Nebraskans will never be able to claim that they have been treated in any but the most hospitable fashion.”
• “Two yeggmen blew the postoffice safe at Baldwin with nitro-glycerin early this morning and escaped with $400 in money and $1,600 worth of stamps in small denominations. Two muffled explosions were heard with a short interval between about 1:15 o’clock. Students of Baker University who were keeping late hours after a holiday at the school heard the explosions. Two of them were southwest of the postoffice about half a block distant when the reports were heard. They went to investigate and at the corner of the block in which the postoffice is located were confronted by a man with a gun who ordered them to move to another part of town. They went at once. Another Baker student was north of the postoffice when he heard the explosions and the sound of splintering glass. He sauntered down in the direction of the postoffice when he saw two men come out of an alley and turn toward him. He jumped down into an opening in front of a basement window of the Methodist church and remained there quietly until the two men bearing their sacks had passed on the sidewalk within a foot of his head. They were walking to the east. It is believed that they left Baldwin in a motor car…. The big postoffice safe was shattered by the second explosion. The heavy doors were splintered and a hole was blown in the ceiling of the room…. Before the robbery the yeggmen broke into the city light plant and secured a crowbar, a cold chisel, a hammer and a screwdriver, which they used in their operations at the postoffice.”
• “Since the enumeration of automobiles began the first of July to ascertain the total owned in Douglas county, 822 machines have been put upon the tax rolls at the court house. This is in excess of last year’s number [by] 117 machines, the total last year reaching but 705…. The number of motorcycles listed so far with the county treasurer is but eighty, or eighteen less than one year ago. While the number is gradually increasing, it is not expected to reach the total of last year. It is believed that there are proportionally as many new motorcycles as autos, but that they are systematically covered up and not reported.”