04/24/2026
π₯World's Champ Egg Eaterπ₯
Meet Charles Purchase of Fall River, Mass., reported in the Winston-Salem Journal, 100 years ago today as the World Champ in Egg eating! He ate 96 eggs in less than 2 hours. He won $100 as a result of a bet.
What an eggcelent genealogical find! I love finding human interest articles like this for my own ancestors, so I hope one day someone experiences that with this article! An example of why checking old newspapers is so important! I was unable to find any mention of this when researching him independently. This article may be the only record of this event.