Court Fight Over Cook’s Biscuits

Posted on November 27, 2009 by lmharnisch
 
Nov. 27, 1909, Gambling 

Charges are dropped against men accused of violating the law on public speaking in parks.
Nov. 27, 1909, Biscuits
 
Nov. 27, 1909: Lucene Farr, an African American cook, tries to recover $40 after quitting her job at the boarding house of Alice Eisen because  Eisen criticized Farr’s biscuits as “nothing like her mother used to make.”

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