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Manhattan's Restaurant in Carol Stream Invites You to Spend Sweetest Day Weekend with Us

In 1921, a committee  of 12 confectioners chaired by candymaker C. C. Hartzel, desired to do something for the ‘newsboys, orphans, old folks, and the poor in Cleveland, OH’.  They went about organizing the first ‘Sweetest Day’ set for the 3rd Saturday in October.  Movie stars Theda Bara and Ann Pennington assisted in distributing 20,000… Continue Reading