Eleanor Reynolds, 1915 Harlem lobster winner

The New York Times archives from before 1923 are now available free of charge, making accessible an article describing Eleanor Reynolds’s victory in a 1915 eating contest in Harlem in which she ate 22 lobsters, defeating the male runner up by 5 lobsters.

An excerpt from the article’s PDF file follows after the jump


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