From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for May 4, 1916:

• “Billy Sunday received an enthusiastic welcome from Kansas editors and Kansas University faculty members and students this morning when he delivered a thirty-five minute address in Robinson gymnasium, Speaking on the irresistible power of the press, Sunday displayed the wonderful variety of adjectives which he has at his command, introduced a lot of Kansas local color into his address and made a decidedly favorable impression…. Taking up the subject of prohibition, Sunday injected his widely advertised force into the address. ‘If I loved Kansas and Kansas editors for nothing else it would be for prohibition which they made possible so early. In my fight for prohibition I have preached its glories in Kansas to millions who have never crossed the state boundaries and I intend to do it until the undertaker pumps me full of embalming fluid and the quartet sings “Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom.”… Newspapers can force the whole rotten God-forsaken bunch of wickedness from the country. They can compel all men in public life to be decent. I do not believe there is an evil force, organized or unorganized, that can stand the attack of the honest, fearless newspaper. Vice is a carbuncle on society…. I believe that the honest newspaper is invincible. You might as well try to batter down Gibralter with peas or to dam Niagara with toothpicks as to overthrow the honest fearless newspapers…. If every newspaper in America were suppressed tomorrow I believe crime would increase one hundred percent in twenty-four hours. All hell would join in a jubilee…. So I think it is up to you fellows to make the instrument what it ought to be. I think the man who invented the printing press invented something greater than gunpowder, and the man who invented the linotype something greater than the dreadnaught. But don’t get it into your head that I am against dreadnaughts. I am an American and I believe in preparedness. And I am not a Democrat either. I am an anti-saloon, woman-suffrage Republican.’… At the conclusion of his address, Billy Sunday demanded that the Rock Chalk, Jay Hawk, K. U. yell, which he had been given as a welcoming cheer, be repeated.”
• “J. L. Stewart, a workman on the new bridge, was seriously injured this morning when one of the iron buckets used to remove earth and stone from the caisson slipped and fell from the top of the caisson nearly fifty feet above the workmen. In falling it is probable that the huge handle whipped him in the head. He was struck just above the ear…. The man was immediately taken to a hospital. He was unconscious from the blow received. An operation was necessary to remove a piece of the fractured skull. The doctors who have the case in charge say that the man has a good opportunity to recover.”