‘Sailor Jack’ On The Cracker Jack Box Was A Real Boy From Chicago

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‘Sailor Jack’ On The Cracker Jack Box Was A Real Boy From Chicago
By Eric Model |
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A Journey into Hidden America

As Game 7 of the World Series begins we came across this interesting feature by Linze Rice from daninfo.com:

The smiling, patriotic boy and his dog greeting people on the front of each box of Cracker Jack were actually once real characters in the life of the snack’s inventor, and, tragically, would come to define the boy’s short life.

He was Robert Rueckheim, born in West Ridge in 1913 as the grandson of Frederick Rueckheim.

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‘Sailor Jack’ On The Cracker Jack Box Was A Real Boy From Chicago
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Hidden America / Cracker Jacks