...free lunch...& free-luncher...

[GSCole]

According to some of the material in the MOA databases, free lunch
counters were to be found in various places.

(1892) -- These places are not at all "free lunches". . . --
http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/m/moajrnl/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=75&root=mm000066%2F1387over%2Fv0020%2Fi120&tif=05730563.tif&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hti.umich.edu%2Fcgi%2Fm%2Fmoajrnl%2Fmoajrnl-idx%3Fnotisid%3DAHJ1472-1387OVER-84

(1898) -- free-lunch counter --
http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/m/moajrnl/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=75&root=mm000088%2F1471cath%2Fv0068%2Fi404&tif=02620254.tif&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hti.umich.edu%2Fcgi%2Fm%2Fmoajrnl%2Fmoajrnl-idx%3Fnotisid%3DBAC8387-1471CATH-37

(1871) -- perhaps a free-lunch establishment --
http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/m/moajrnl/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=75&root=mm000064%2F1332appl%2Fv0006%2Fi135&tif=04980494.tif&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hti.umich.edu%2Fcgi%2Fm%2Fmoajrnl%2Fmoajrnl-idx%3Fnotisid%3DACW8433-1332APPL-322

(1872) -- free-luncher -- [in a book: Words and Their Uses]
http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa&cc=moa&sid=70f976204d03420c&q1=free%20lunch&seq=00000221&idno=akr1503.0001.001&view=image&size=s

[same item, from a journal, different title (1873)]
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=50&root=%2Fmoa%2Fgala%2Fgala0015%2F&tif=00056.TIF&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fcdl.library.cornell.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmoa%2Fmoa-cgi%3Fnotisid%3DACB8727-0015-9

George S. Cole  gscole at ark.ship.edu
Shippensburg University