{"id":9303,"date":"2020-12-02T07:51:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T12:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=9303"},"modified":"2020-11-17T14:32:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T19:32:57","slug":"when-fruit-cake-grew-on-trees-or-in-furniture-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2020\/12\/02\/when-fruit-cake-grew-on-trees-or-in-furniture-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"When fruit cake grew on trees, or in furniture stores"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A fruit cake with every furniture purchase<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a Christian Howard’s Furniture add in the Henderson daily dispatch.<\/em> (Henderson, N.C.), 16 Dec. 1937. <https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn91068401\/1937-12-16\/ed-1\/seq-3\/<\/a>><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find amazing and terrible things in old newspapers. You can find old newspapers on Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers<\/em>. at the Library of Congress. Join me there. Whole days will pass before you know it.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A fruit cake with every furniture purchase From a Christian Howard’s Furniture add in the Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.), 16 Dec. 1937. <https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn91068401\/1937-12-16\/ed-1\/seq-3\/> You can find amazing and terrible things in old newspapers. You can find old newspapers on Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. at the Library of Congress. Join me there. Whole days… Continue reading When fruit cake grew on trees, or in furniture stores<\/span><\/a><\/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-9303","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":9303,"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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