With many of the previous year’s workers now training at Camp Doniphan or already serving overseas, the state’s colleges were in search of ways to release their students a bit earlier this semester to assist with the harvest. Looking ahead to spring, the University of Kansas acted this ...

As recently as 50 or even 25 years before the Great War, Lawrence residents had spent a good part of the winter cutting and storing ice from area ponds and from the Kansas River, and “extensive ice houses on the river bank” had a capacity of several hundred tons. Local “ice men” ...

In the spirit of wartime frugality, the Kansas College Association this month discussed “the elimination of college baseball, reduction of expense attached to intercollegiate athletics, lowering of Coach’s and other athletic official salaries, extension of inter-class athletics to the ...

Food conservation efforts continued through the winter, with citizens encouraged to abstain from red meat every Tuesday and from all wheat products every Wednesday. Not only private citizens, but public restaurants, were urged to comply, and daily updates in the Journal-World publicized which ...

Since its founding, Lawrence had been very welcoming to settlers of German origin, but this attitude was undergoing a big change in early 1918. This week, the time span of Feb. 4-9 was announced for “the registration of German alien enemies in Lawrence…. For this purpose the police station ...

Several representatives from Lawrence churches met this week to discuss “elimination of the liquor traffic, not only in this country, but among the American soldiers abroad.” Rev. W. J. Herwig, Superintendent of the Kansas Department of the Anti-Saloon League of America, and Rev. E. E. ...