Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-29
ATREMENDOUS APPETITE.
Champion Eater of the Time
Lives Over in Ohio.

Stories which have been going
the rounds of the daily press con.
corning the gastronomic feats of
DR.. H. L. Bonner, of Marion, Ohio,
have savored so strongly Of Nun
chausen, the classic prevaricator,
that we have been loathe to believe
them, but careful inquiry into the
case on our own part, says Leslie's
Weekly, has convinced US beyond
doubt that the most amazing of
these reports are literally true, and
that In DR.. Bonner Ohio can boast
of man who can stow away more
TODD in his interior department at a
single sitting than any other man
living. 1t is strictly, though we
can hardly say painfully, true that
DIR. Bonner has been known to eat
twenty five pounds of grapes, be.
tween meals of an afternoon, and
thinks no more of treating
himself to whole bunch of ba-
nanas when he feels that way, or
incidentally making away with a
crate of strawberries or a basket
of peaches, than an ordinary per.
SON would think of taking two bites
at cherry. And when the doctor
really gets down to business at a
regular meal his bill of fare gener.
ally runs about as follows: One
five pound steak smothered In
onions, four dozen hard boiled eggs,
eighteen boiled potatoes, quart
can of tomatoes, two or three pies
and from six to nine glasses of milk
fill In the chinks. Often when the
doctor comes home late of winter
night after long, hard drive he
will take few light refreshments"
before retiring In the shape of
four. pound steak, fifty six hard
boiled eggs, three and one half
pumpkin pies and gallon of milk,
and we have 1t as the direct testi.
mony of a personal friend that DR..
Bonner never bad the nightmare
In his life. This same friend tells
US of a chance acquaintance of the
doctors who happened to meet him
on the street one day about noon
ar d invited him into restaurant TO
luncheon. The doctor suggested
that 1t had better be a"Dutch treat"
but his new friend objected to that
and asked what he would have
The doctor said that If 1t was "ali
the same, "he would take a five
pound steak smothered In mush.
rooms to begin with, and after that
he wouldn't mind" having three
dozen fried eggs, can or two OF
tomatoes, dozen cucumbers ard
such little side dishes as there we've
on the bill. The acquainta nee
thought the doctor was putting up
a bluff, but he ordered two five
pound steaks, tine eggs and the
other things on the list. After the
order was served the friend engag-
ed In conversation with a gentle
man passing by and turned his back
to the table, whereupon the doctor,
Just for joke cleared off every
thing, so that when his host was
ready for his meal there was moth.
ing left but toothpicks. The hosts
remarks on this occasion are
discreetly left to the imagination.
1t would be wholly unjust to DR..
Bonner to close this account with
out stating In all seriousness, that
he Is by no means a glutton, or
man who cares to pose as great
eater. On the contrary, he Is a
refined gentleman, a graduate of
Edinburg College, lover of art
and literature and successful and
highly respected physician. Nature
seems to have endowed him with
an abnormal capacity for food, and
he only eats what he Graves and
what he needs as other men do.
He Is a we'll proportioned man, his
weight being 22o pounds and his
age sixty three years.
Hay Fever Easily Cured.