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This Day in Minnesota History

January 25, 1915

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Clay School serves the first "penny luncheon" in Minneapolis, "a financial and dietetic experiment" by the Woman's Club of Minneapolis and the Parents and Teachers' Association. For two cents each, students purchase a meal of creamed rice (with raisins) and bread and cocoa, a "more wholesome . . . repast than many of the youngsters have been buying . . . in confectionery stores in the neighborhood." If the luncheons prove successful, the Minneapolis Journal notes, "the school board will be asked to authorize their establishment in a number of other public schools."

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