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Show Seven Philadelphia newsboys engaged in a pie-eating match the other evening for the amusement of Apollo Senate, Knights of Sparta. The pies were large, thick, very juicy, and made of cherries. The boy who, without the aid of knife, fork or finger, first finished his pie, was to have a dollar. Every boy was - paid 50 cents in addition. The pies were on a ! narrow table, and after each boy's hands had been tied behind him . time was called. In fine minutes Jimmy Dough-ertv Dough-ertv had eaten every crumb, - licked the plate clean, and looked like a painted devil in a pantomime. Two of the boys were down on their knees, having dropped their pies on the floor. . ! |