A Peanut Slot Machine

1901

No doubt most of our young readers are fond of peanuts, especially of the salted variety. It would seem rather queer, would it not, to put a nickel in a slot and get some salted peanuts in return? Yet this is exactly what a very large firm intends to make a common thing. A company was recently organized in Norfolk called the Southern Peanut company, and it has bought practically all the No. 1 Spanish peanuts in the market. It will operate 50,000,000 nickel in the slot machines in various parts of the world, which will be well stored with peanuts, washed, boiled in cocoanut oil and salted. — New York Herald.