Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-11-04
HOLDS RECORD AS EATER.
Ohio Doctor Closes Business With a
Four-Pound Steak and Side Dishes.

FoUr-Pound steak and Side Dishes.
Stories concerning the feats of DR..
H. l.. Bonner of Marion, O., as an
eater have savored so strongly OF
Munchausen, the classic prevaricator.
that the Parkersburg Sentinel has
been loath to believe them, but care
full inquiry into the case by that
newspaper has convinced it beyond
doubt that the most amazing OF
these reports are literally true, and
that in DR.. Bonner Ohio can boast OF
a man who can stow away more food
in his interior department at single
sitting than any other living man.
| A correspondent writes as follows
concerning this great eater:
<'It is strictly, though we can hard
ly say painfully, true that DR.. Bonner
has been known to eat twenty-five
pounds of grapes between meals OF
an afternoon, and thinks no more OF
treating himself to a whole bunch OF
bananas when he feels that way, or
incidentally making away with
crate of strawberries or a basket OF
peaches, than an ordinary person
would think of taking two bites at a
cherry.
"And when the doctor really gets
down to business at regular meal
his bill of fare generally runs about
as follows:
Zone fve-pound steak smothered in
onions.
-Four dozen hard boiled eggs.
Eighteen boiled potatoes.
"a quart can Of tomatoes.
1.-TWO or three pies and from six
to nine glasses of milk I'll in the
chinks.
"Often when the doctor comes
home late of winter night after a
long, hard drive he will take a few
light refreshments before retiring
in the shape of a four-pound steak,
fifty-six hard boiled eggs, three and
one-half pumpkin pies, and a gallon
of milk, and we have it as the direct
testimony of a personal friend that
DR.. Bonner never had the nigh tmare
in his life.
"This same friend tells us of
chance acquaintance of the doctors
who happened to meet him on the
street one day about noon and invited
him into a restaurant to luncheon.
The doctor suggested that it had bet
ter be Dutch treat but his new
friend objected to that, and asked
y1o+ h.
that If it was all the same he would
take a five-pound steak smothered in
mushrooms to begin with, and after
that he wouldn't mind having three
dozen fried eggs. can or two of
tomatoes, dozen cUcumbers, aud
such little side dishes as there were
on the BILL
"The acquaintance thought the doc
tor was putting up bluff, but he
ordered two five-pound steaks, the
eggs, and the other things on the list.
After the order was served the frienf
engaged in conversation with a gen
tleman passing by, and turned his
back to the table, whereupon the doc
tor, just for joke, cleared off every
thing, so that when his host was
ready for his meal there was nothing
left but the toothpicks. The hosts
remarks on this occasion are discreet
ly left to the imagination.
1T would be wholly unjust to DR..
Bonner to close this account of his
extraordinary achievements at the
| table without stating in al serious
| ness that he is by no means glut-
| ton or a man who cares to pose as a
| great eater. On the contrary, he Is
| refined gentleman, a graduate of
Edinburgh College, lover of art and
| literature, and successful and high
ly respected physician. Nature seems
| to have endowed him with an a5nor-
NAL capacity for food, and he only
[ eats what he Graves and what he
needs, as other men do. He is we'll
proportional man, his weigh being
220 pounds, and his age sixty-three
years.-Baltimore Sun.