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-T-r n* i ■ - - _ —, __ r -1 f—tj-f 1EATS SIXTY EGGS FOE HIS BREAKFASTNew York, June 4.—At midnight the other night William H. Reinke climbed out from under a panting taxicab in the West Fifty-seventh street garage of the Mason , Sea-mon company and remarked he was going to have only a light supper, for he had planned to eat breakfast later on.So for midnight supper he had only eight “ham and egg” sandwidies, j two slabs of indestructible pie and! two quarts of coffee. This frugal re- i past left him in splendid shape for: his breakfast. |Just eight, hours later, “hungry as! a bear.” he said, he walked into a: restaurant at Fifty-ninth street, and Columbus circle and ordered breakfast. The waitress shrieked for help.Here is what the hungry Mr. Reinke has] ordered:Fifteen scrambled eggs, fifteen soft boiled eggs. fifteen: fried eggs, fifteen hard boiled eggs and a half a dozen glasses of water.Please don't laugh. That’s eggs-actly what. he ordered and that is what he got.Then, fourteen minutes later, he called for his check. It came to ?4, but Mr. Reinke paid without a murmur.“Now, I'll go homo to ;01» West Twenty-sixth street.'' he said, “and get some sleep. Tonight, when I get tip. I'll be hungry again.“I don’t drink, ehc-w or smoke,” he continued. My only dissipation is eating eggs; when I want to go tUit. on a spree I eat. fottr or fivedozen.I can make good headway with them, too. hut I have yet to learn to eat soft boiled eggs with a knife.”
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Waterloo Evening Courier
Waterloo, Iowa, US
Wed, Jun 04, 1913
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