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Show CHICAGOANS EAT 8,000,000 BUNS Chicago, April 11. In celebration of Good Friday, Chicagoans yesterday ate 8,000,000 hot. cross buns, accord-Ing accord-Ing to the estimates of bakers. At one cent each, the sum expended for the delicacy was $S0,000. Placed end to end the buns would have reachett in a straight line from Chicago to Cincinnati, Cin-cinnati, it was estimated. "We eat more hot cross buns in Chicago on Good Friday than any other oth-er city in the world London not excepted," ex-cepted," said one baker. "I "have tak-." en the trouble to get statistics from several of the large cities and Chicago Chi-cago is the champion bun eating town of the world." |