From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 23, 1915:

• “The organization known as the Kansas University Glee club was in anything but a gleeful mood yesterday when word was received from Columbia that the joint concert which the Kansas-Missouri clubs were to give in Columbia had been called off. It was explained that the Missouri authorities could not guarantee the expenses of the Kansas singers on the trip. In a twinkling the Glee club was changed to a gloom club, for sixteen singers and a pianist had been counting for weeks on the outing they would have at Columbia in the Thanksgiving season. It was hard for the members of the club to find anything to be thankful for. Last year the Missouri club was brought to Lawrence and the expenses of the singers from Columbia and back were paid by the Kansas club.”
• “It is believed that the stores of Lawrence will be generally closed on Thursday for Thanksgiving, although there will be a few that will remain open. All of the clothing, dry goods, shoe, millinery and exclusive grocery stores will be closed all day…. On account of handling the report from the Kansas-Missouri game at Columbia, play by play on its gridiron in front of the office, the Journal-World will issue Thursday as usual.”
• “Mayor Francisco brought up a proposition to change the unofficial rule about right of way for vehicles in the street by establishing a rule that north and south bound vehicles have the right of way on all streets. An open discussion resulted in the agreement that the present rule will be better for Lawrence, as it is generally understood by the many motorists who visit here from other towns. It is simply stated thus: ‘The man on your right has the right of way.’ It is possible that this rule will be made a part of the traffic ordinance at a later meeting of the commission.”
• “University of Kansas engineers, some forty of them, will have a busy Thanksgiving vacation. Forty seniors in the department of civil, electrical and mechanical engineering will go on a trip of inspection which every senior must take before graduation…. Five days will be given to the inspection of various industrial plants in and near Chicago. The United States steel corporation’s plants at Gary will be inspected while the engineers are making their headquarters at Chicago. The big electric plant there will be visited by the electrical engineers. The civils will go through the plant of the American Bridge company and will also inspect several bridges in Chicago. The mechanicals will make a side trip to Kenosha, Wis., to stay for a time at a big motor car plant.”