- Date
- 1959-04
- Kind
- Occurrence
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communicationcommunityfamily
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The April 1959 Beaver Beacon humor column recounts an egg slipping beneath Doc Luton’s stove drip pan while Milt Bennett was visiting for breakfast.
Evidence limits
This is a newspaper anecdote, not a household, culinary, or incident record.
Sources
- Humorously reports that an egg slipped from Doc Luton’s hand while Milt Bennett was visiting for breakfast, disappeared while bacon burned, and was later found beneath the stove drip pan. It is a newspaper anecdote, not a household or culinary record. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1959-04_Beaver-Beacon
- The held four-page issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the humorous breakfast item; it does not expand the anecdotal record.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1959-04_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Doc Luton and Milt Bennett discover a hidden breakfast egg, 1959”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-egg-breakfast-joke-1959/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 1959, “NOT SCRAMBLED BUT HIDING.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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