From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 2, 1916:

• “The town cleanup in Lawrence this spring will be entirely an individual affair, it was announced from the city hall today. The hauling away of trash will not be paid for from the city’s general fund as it was last year. Instead, it will be up to each property owner to have his premises cleaned up and to have the trash hauled to the city dump at his expense. Last year the expense of hauling away the refuse was paid from the city’s general fund. Several days were devoted to the work, and the street force covered the whole town thoroughly. It was an effective factor in getting a cleaner town, but apparently was rather expensive, judging from the city hall announcement today. Mayor Francisco passed out the word that the spring cleaning season for premises of the town is now on, and today invited all householders to turn to with a will and help out with the good work. ‘I hope to see a cleaner town than ever before,’ said the Mayor. ‘A few days of well directed work will bring about the results, and the back yards should be as clean as the front yards and kept in that condition through the summer. There is nothing that will make a better showing for the town in the summer time than to keep it spick and span.'”
• “Examination of the alumni records of the University of Kansas tends to support what is said to be a popular idea that a smaller proportion of women graduates of higher education institutions marry than do women who have not received the larger training. The figures showed that more of the women graduates of the institution are teaching school than are married, there being 599 teachers as compared with 403 married women. Also there are 399 unmarried women graduates living at home and engaged in no business. Five women graduates of the University are classified as farmers, twelve as pharmacists and nineteen as physicians. By far the largest percentage of the men graduates of the University have gone into the law, there being 732 lawyers among the alumni. Four hundred and thirty-six are classed as engineers, 409 as educators, 315 as physicians, 395 as druggists and 105 as merchants.”
• “In an official proclamation issued today Governor Capper designated the eight days between March 4 and 11 as ‘Baby Week’ in Kansas. He asked ‘all thoughtful citizens in the state to cooperate the public officials and private associations in the study of many problems affecting child culture and the conservation of child life.’… The local committee in charge of the observance of baby week has received from the state bureau of child hygiene several hundred copies of pamphlets dealing with the care of babies, which will be distributed to interested persons during the week…. Country people as well as the residents of Lawrence are invited to have their babies registered and examined.”
• “The city of Lawrence went somewhat extensively into the business of supplying lodgings to wayfarers in the month just ended. Chief of Police Fischer figured up today and found that 168 men had been given a place to sleep at the city jail in the month of February. The building work in progress of the new bridge is believed to be responsible for the large number of men cared for. Many came to Lawrence in the hope of finding work on the bridge, and until they connected with a job had no place to sleep except as guests of the city.”
• “The business office of the Lawrence Business College was entered last night and a small amount of money, about $1, and postage stamps to the value of $1 were taken from the cash drawer. Entrance to the room was gained by the breaking of a window. The police were unable to find any clue that indicated the identity of the thief, but believe the office was entered by some one familiar with the premises. The window which was broken was located so that a person reaching through it could open the door to the office.”