Local writer Sarah St. John pulls from the Journal-World archives to compile reports of what it was like to be in Lawrence decades ago.
From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 7, 1915:"War and romance will be mingled in the departure of Dr. A. L. Van Meter, a graduate of the University of Kansas in 1909, for the western battle front in Europe. He will become a surgeon in the British service and he will take with him his ...
From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 6, 1915:"A crowd of at least 150 rooters is in Topeka today to witness the football game between Lawrence high and Topeka high at the Western League park. Most of them accompanied the team on Santa Fe No. 5. Other people went on the two other ...
From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 5, 1915:"The city will not depart from the conventional way of laying bricks, in constructing the six blocks of pavement which have been ordered in North Lawrence. After discussing the new-fangled plan yesterday afternoon of laying the bricks flat ...
From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 4, 1915:"The city commissioners were in session this afternoon trying to settle the question of what kind of pavement North Lawrence shall have and how it shall be laid.... The suggestion that in the pavement of Locust street the bricks be laid ...
From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 3, 1915:"Lawrence is soon to be host to a big crowd of football enthusiasts, and the Merchants association is taking steps now to see that the town is properly decorated for the occasion, the Kansas-Nebraska game.... The Merchants association will ...
From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 2, 1915:"The city of Lawrence was confronted today by a demand for restitution of property destroyed by a mob. A bill for $21 was filed with the city commissioners at their regular weekly meeting by W. E. Beattie, who had an outhouse burned by ...