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1908. MR. BRYAN AS A QUICK LUNCH HERO. Mr. Bryan has, during the past twelve years, eaten or otherwise made way with over 1,700 meals at railroad lunch-counters. He is a survivor of all the bad lunch-counters in the country. He has run a block, eaten a meal, and returned to his train in the fifteen minutes allowed by the railroad companies in Texas. He has partaken of Missouri’s exhibitions of mummified food, and has assimilated the historical eggs at the lunch-counter at Aurora, Illinois, and the pink peach pies of the lunch-counters at Cleveland, Ohio. He has drunk 1,700 kinds of coffee at these places, and has thus learned every brand of chickory that is raised in Michigan. He has sat, morning after morning, with the elbow of his right-hand neighbor in his vitals, and the elbow of his left-hand neighbor in his pie, and has thought, while eating, of a place where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest.—From ‘Travelling for the Presidency,’ an article by George Fitch in Collier’s Mag., Oct.
