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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: The Anarchist Soup Plot (1916)
Description: It’s February 10th. This day in 1916, at an event attended by much of Chicago’s political and religious elite, an anarchist cook poisoned a batch of soup in an attempt to kill all two hundred attendees.
Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss why the plot failed, who the main suspect was, and whether any of the attendees ate soup again.
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