100 years ago: County jail inmates will enjoy a Christmas dinner

From the Lawrence Daily World for Dec. 24, 1910:

  • “Someone who preferred to steal his Christmas dinner to getting it in the usual way, entered the Schell grocery, 1001 New Jersey street early this morning and appropriated a large quantity of food stuffs. The loss can only be partially estimated but will reach approximately $25. Ten pounds of butter, cans of fruit and vegetables, meat, sugar, coffee, cigars, and tobacco were all missed by the grocer.”
  • “The prisoners in the county jail will receive a delicious old-fashioned Christmas dinner tomorrow. There are three days in the year, Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter, upon which the prisoners receive extra rations. Tomorrow for dinner they will receive roast chicken, three or four vegetables, celery, cranberry sauce and plum pudding. Last Thanksgiving they were given a goose dinner.”
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