Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1920 — “Oliver Twist’s” Gruel Boiler Offered Museum [ARTICLE]

“Oliver Twist’s” Gruel Boiler Offered Museum

London.—With other Dickens relics, the iron boiler*ln which, , according to “Oliver Twist,” watery gruel was boiled for young Oliver and other inmates of St George’s workhouse, Borough. S. E., has been offered to the Southwark museum. St George’s Workhouse, in the yard of which stood a public house kept by the mother of the highwayman Jack Sheppard, has been closed.