Season 1 · Episode 1514
Kalamazoo Free Lunch & Lincoln's Assassins | Apr 26
On this day in 1901: Kalamazoo saloon owners agreed to stop offering…
Michigan Minute · WKAR Public Media
April 26, 20251m 0s
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Show Notes
On this day in 1901: Kalamazoo saloon owners agreed to stop offering extravagant free lunches, limiting them to cheese and crackers. On this day in 1865: Luther and LaFayette Baker from Lansing, Michigan, found John Wilkes Booth and David Herold in a barn after President Lincoln's assassination. Herold surrendered, but Booth did not. Luther Baker's account is in the Michigan Archives.