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1907 Menu for the Fellowcraft Club's First Anniversary Banquet

I found this excellent mini menu from the Fellowcraft Club's First Anniversary Banquet in 1907 today at the Farmington estate sale that I went to yesterday but only made it into the garage. The skull and bones Prost cover won me over. It's vintage age and Detroit connection sealed the deal. Detroit Free Press , May 31, 1908 According to a feature in the Detroit Free Press from the year after this booklet the club was founded in the 1890s and seemingly persisted into the later middle 1940s. On the menu for the first banquet was blue points, celery, olives, fried frog legs, tartar sauce, sliced cucumbers, roast young chicken, brown sweet potatoes, combination salad, Budweiser and cigars. Members listed and those who autographed the menu included B. S. Tomlinson, H. Lelliott, Jas. Thompson, F. O'Hara, E. Schremser, F. van Amburgh, O. Till, Carl Haines, H. Komrofsky, Wm. Votruba, Wm. Maier, Thos. Bowler, Chas. Krejci, L. Motto,  Max Smith, Homer Grenier and Arthur May. A view ...