History Month Fact 20: Starving Children

To aid the children in the hard times of 1886, some 250 children were fed at a special children’s dinner party with cold boiled beef, hot potatoes, hot carrots and bread at the Infant School-room. They devoured 130 lbs. of beef, four bushels of potatoes, a bushel of carrots and twelve gallons of bread.

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