Bee-Hunting on a Wild Kansas Claim and a Cliffside Honey Tree
I speak as a boy of fourteen living with my family on a Southern Kansas claim near Verdigris. The land fed game and vast bee trees, especially scaly-bark hickory yielding nearly 200 pounds of honey in one tree. My brother Tom and I devised a daring plan to harvest honey from a cliff edge tree without toppling it, using a belt axe and a smoking cloth to drive the bees from the hollow.
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Kansan
Tom
perilous cliff rescue after honey harvesting incident
In a dramatic tale from Golden Days, a man treks to retrieve honey from a hollow in a treetop. A cracking trunk and falling bark send him sliding toward a cliff, where he grips a vine as his brother Tom climbs out on a bending tree to haul him to safety.
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Cliff
Tom
Lisenbee
Shahs consort iridectomy surgery and royal delays
The Medical Press notes the Shahs consort underwent iridectomy for chronic glaucoma costing the empire a fortune in fees. Two surgeons earned £1500 in total. The Shah delayed travel to Europe until royal astrologers approved. they forecast no fatal outcome, but the pilgrims fate remains uncertain as return remains the real concern.
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Europe
Early Missouri judge hid truth in affidavits for delay
A Kansas City Times anecdote recalls Judge B a prominent Central Missouri lawyer noted for propriety who evaded affidavit wording in appeals by replacing or with but claiming not vexation but delay. The story surfaces posthumously with a review of his cases. Also mentions Western tailors and a Michigan court costs记, plus a near centennial baptism of a colored woman in Atlanta.
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Missouri
Kansas City Times
White Slaves in Turkey Echoes in Local Parlor Tale
A Punch humorous sketch follows Mrs Bob Bull, busy wife of a Brit workman, as she manages household chores from dawn to night. Her husband boasts about a night out, while she toils, and they muse on “white slaves in Turkey,” a satire on labor and domestic toil.
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Bob Bull
Chhildren
Mrs. Bob
Bob
England
Dounger
Seaside
Githar
Texas Siftings
Famous Borrowers of Thought Across Historic Authors
Henry Duncan of the Kansas City Star cites a long list of great writers whose works show signs of borrowed language. He argues that plagiarism, in many cases, fueled the world’s literature from Chaucer to Shakespeare and Goethe, noting many celebrated examples and their sources. One tale notes Mrs. Catherine Sharp, now 112, who once sold milk to Washington.
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Harper's Magazine
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Chaucer
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Runnymede
John
Jefferson
Mecklenburg
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Demosthenes
Voltaire
Washington Irving
Emerson
India
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Anthony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
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Henry Duncan
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