White House Thanksgiving Turkeys in the Roaring '20s
First families received turkeys as gifts long before the 1920s. Horace Vose, the “Poultry King” of southwestern Rhode Island, first sent...
"Poultry King" Horace Vose supplies the White House with Holiday Turkeys
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"Poultry King" Horace Vose supplies the White House with Holiday Turkeys
"Poultry King" Horace Vose supplied the White House with Holiday Turkeys from 1873 until his death in 1913.
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