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History

History

History stories from Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas and the Midwest.
  • Former KU Jayhawl great Lynette Woodward playing in Allen Fieldhouse
    Kansas Athletics
    Up until a few weeks ago, Lynette Woodard from the University of Kansas had scored more points in college basketball than any woman ever. But she was never recognized by the NCAA as a scoring champion.
  • Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library
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    Crysta Henthorne, KCUR 89.3
    Oreo is the best-selling cookie in the world today. But few people remember the product that Nabisco blatantly ripped off: Hydrox. A creation of Kansas City’s Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company, Hydrox was billed as the “aristocrat of cookies,” with a novel combo of chocolate and cream filling. So why, more than a century later, is Hydrox still mistaken as a cheap knockoff?