Hamburger Sandwich (1902, in Iowa)

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Add Des Moines, Iowa to the list of "hamburger sandwich" cites  (including
Los Angeles, Chicago, Reno (NV), Davenport (Iowa), Decatur (IL),  Omaha
(Nebraska), Fort Worth (TX), Hawaii, and just possibly New Haven,  Connecticut) before
Fletcher Davis (of tiny Athens, Texas) first  introduced the "hamburger" to
the world at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.  Yep, Fletcher Davis deserves all
the credit. Must have been a genius.
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5 May 1902, Des Moines (Iowa) <i>Daily News</i>, pg. 6, col.  2:
<i>THEY FIGHT OVER SANDWICH</i>
<i>Lunch Wagon Man Refused to Sell</i>
<i>Them "On Tick" to Jim and</i>
<i>Alex Sandy.</i>

A hamburger sandwich was the cause of a sanguinary melee at a lunch wagon  on
East Fifth street Saturday afternoon. Jim Sandy, who, it is claimed, was
intoxicated, approached the wagon and asked for a sandwich. F. Graham, who owns
the wagon, passed out the article to him. Jim took the same and after biting a
 large chunk out of it, told Graham that he hadn't the price of the sandwich
with  him and that he would have to stand him off.



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