{"id":10436,"date":"2022-12-06T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=10436"},"modified":"2022-11-21T15:46:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T20:46:25","slug":"fruitcake-murder-poison-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2022\/12\/06\/fruitcake-murder-poison-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruitcake: murder, poison, theft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have an unfinished project tracking fruitcake recipes through newspaper clippings that calls to me. To get me in the mood to revisit it, and to get you in the mood for the holidays, here are some choice clippings of the theft, poison, and murder with which fruitcake has been associated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.), 09 Jan. 1922. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]), 08 Jan. 1911. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]), 31 Dec. 1929. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.), 22 Feb. 1959. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]), 09 May 1892. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have an unfinished project tracking fruitcake recipes through newspaper clippings that calls to me. To get me in the mood to revisit it, and to get you in the mood for the holidays, here are some choice clippings of the theft, poison, and murder with which fruitcake has been associated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[48,106],"class_list":["post-10436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-holiday","tag-recipes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9300,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2020\/11\/21\/a-growing-obsession\/","url_meta":{"origin":10436,"position":0},"title":"A growing obsession","author":"leems","date":"November 21, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I may have told a fair few people already, but I have a growing obsession with fruit cake. 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