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    1. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 11 Sep 2016
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      Donut math, from 1917 http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1917/12/16/102386839.html?pageNumber=50 …pic.twitter.com/PWGHdS3AtV

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    2. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 11 Sep 2016
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      1919: "what did you do in the war, grandpa?" "ate donuts." http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1917/12/16/102386839.html?pageNumber=50 …pic.twitter.com/ZfprQOzkPa

      3 replies 9 retweets 11 likes
    3. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 11 Sep 2016
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      $100 for the prettiest doughnut cooker from Dutchess County to make an appearance at the Hotel Astor in 1922pic.twitter.com/oCLpeE6ZK1

      2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
    4. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 11 Sep 2016
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      1927, a pigeon and a cat fight over a doughnut on the Staten Island ferry http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1927/07/30/104076121.html?pageNumber=17 …pic.twitter.com/hkxDJU1392

      1 reply 2 retweets 3 likes
    5. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 11 Sep 2016
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      (It's close, but I think that is my favorite headline in all of this)

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    6. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 11 Sep 2016
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      "How will it end? The pigeon gets fatter every day. … The cat is getting thinner."pic.twitter.com/cVLrhNPF5l

      1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
    7. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 11 Sep 2016
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      A tear runs down your cheek in 1931: Lucky Strike has lost its lease http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1931/06/03/94237306.html?pageNumber=51 …pic.twitter.com/gOlfxrRVaQ

      1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
    8. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 11 Sep 2016
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      'There is a definite need for education as to what constitutes a breakfast' in 1929pic.twitter.com/L8b7bY9zaW

      4 replies 3 retweets 2 likes
    9. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 11 Sep 2016
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      1934, a week apart, back-to-back stories on food for the brainpic.twitter.com/2AqOlFZmf8

      1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
    10. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 11 Sep 2016
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      In the first, we learn the simple doughnut can power your brain for three whole hourspic.twitter.com/YqYLWXqBwT

      1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
      erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 11 Sep 2016

      waaaaaaait a minute, the second is just a rewrite of the same study repackaged! http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/01/21/94485718.html?pageNumber=146 …pic.twitter.com/Az7xnrSw8M

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        1. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 11 Sep 2016
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          (literally NOTHING we do in journalism in 2016 is new, people.)

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        2. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 11 Sep 2016
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          1935, a freshman at Brown wins a doughnut contest by eating 20. I like to think his dad was that WWI vet.pic.twitter.com/BbCLFrvnTX

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