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Show 131Ii Annual Big Feed lor Newsies Blocked by Flu I "11" an unlucky number? If any doubting Thomas doesn't believe o, let him ask lied, or "skinny, or any on of the 174 'newvboy who had a ninety-horsepower ninety-horsepower appetite all .keyed up for the thirteenth annual Turkey dinner which was to have been given by Kussel L. Tracy of the Tracy Loan and Trust company. To the newsies Mr. Tracy 1. and has been for thirteen yeare, half godfather, half clever magl- clkn. Who on Thanksgiving day waves his magic wand, and lo and behold,' a dinner fH for a king haa been spread before them at some downtown hotel or restaurant restau-rant and. In addition to a carnation carna-tion for each buttonhole, everything every-thing their hungry hearta anj atomachs could wish for, and much more than wa good for them. The dinner wa to have been given thia year In the Wllaon hotel and Charles McjUillis and W. O. Weaver of The Telegram were to have assisted In making the yeung business men do Justice Jus-tice to the entertainment pre-. pre-. pared by their benefactor. The dinner has been abandoned fcthia year on account of the ban "forbidding gatherings while the Influenza epidemic prevails. |