"Combination Cheese and Hamburger Sandwich" (Cheeseburger?) (1926)

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FWIW, I was doing some "hamburger" work and found this "combination cheese  
and hamburger sandwich" 1926 cite.
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12 August 1926, Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner, pg. 7, col. 4:
_Heinie, "Hot Dog" Man,_
_Now Has Sandwiches_
Heinie, for years known as "the hot dog man," has now acquired the sandwich  
and lunch counter at Lagoon and is now in a position to serve his patrons in  
very short order. Heinie's special is a combination cheese and hamburger  
sandwich. "Just try it -- it is a gustatory knockout." Other snappy, tasty items  
include toasted cheese sandwich, ham sandwich, hamburger plain, coffee, milk 
or  buttermilk, and delicious cakes and pastry. Heinie's two stand are located 
just  across the midway from the northeast corner of the dance hall.
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_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheeseburger_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheeseburger) 
 
In 1924, Lionel Sternberger grilled the first cheeseburger in _Pasadena,  
California_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasadena,_California) . When 
Sternberger died in 1964, _Time magazine_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(magazine)) 
  noted in its February 7 issue that:    “ ...at the hungry age of 16, 
[Sternberger] experimentally  dropped a slab of American cheese on a sizzling 
hamburger while helping  out at his father's sandwich shop in Pasadena, thereby 
inventing the  cheeseburger...

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