Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1912 — Eats 360 Bananas in Month to Win Bet [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Eats 360 Bananas in Month to Win Bet

Cincinnati.— ‘th win,” said the man who was eating 360 bananas on a $lO bet ‘Til win easily.” . ’ And John Breen sat down to his fourteenth dozen of bananas on an undertaking to eat thirty dozen in thirty days. . ; • “I have not lost Ay appetite—eat three square meals a day—and the banana* are just a little dessert” The wager was made several days ago at a wake, when some friends were joking Breen about his appetite. He had remarked that ones he nad eaten three dozen bananas in thirty-five minutes. Breen completed his feat the night of April 11, when he topped off his last dos-n with five dozen boiled egg? and two dozen raw oysters. nanaa. Fifteen minutes is the longest time he took to finish a dozen. The nine incnes, ana were seiecteu. Jis h. w-J,uo ud i. a m

two inches in height. “Somehow I never did get enough green peas. 1 ate a gallon can of them one day, and then stopped because I was afraid more would hurt me. I can eat a peck of potatoes with a little butter smeared over them? and quail—l could eat' four of them every day forever.” Breen came to Cincinnati six years ago from Flemingturg, Ky. He is a Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton freight'handler. “John never seems to get enough to eat,” sighs Mrs. O'Meara, his aunt. "At supper he eats half a dosen potm toss, goodly portions pf stowed tomiv toes, several large plebes of meat, a few cups of coffee and half a loaf of bread or a similar quantity of foods, and then lie announces: TH just gs down to the corner and eat them to