Coney Island (1895)

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Slightly earlier for Coney Island=hot dog. DARE has 1950!
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6 September 1895, Syracuse (NY) <i>Daily Standard</i>, pg. 6,  col. 7:
This meat has been sold to a sausage maker and would have been all  bound (?
illegible -- ed.) up into red hot Coney Islands had it not been for the
city's officer.



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