Ice Cream Brick, Cone "Inventors"

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   I searched for "ice cream" and "inventor."  The "ice cream cone" was
invented in 1912?  "Sambo" invented ice cream in 1816?
   The "brick ice cream" deserves following up.


   28 April 1923, APPLETON POST-CRESCENT (Appleton, Wisconsin), pg. 77, col.
5 (Yes, page seventy-seven--ed.):
      MORY'S
    ICE CREAM
      "OLDENBERG SPECIAL"
   Named in honor of Bernard Oldenberg, the inventor of Brick Ice Cream, who
recently died in New Orleans.
   This different combination of Tutti Frutti and Black Walnut Sundae is sure
to please you.


   4 December 1931, ZANESVILLE SIGNAL (Zanesville, Ohio), pg.1, col. 7:
_INVENTOR OF ICE_
   _CREAM CONE DEAD_
   Akron, O., Dec. 4.--The inventor of the ice cream cone is dead.
   He was Charles E, Menches, 72, circus trapeze performer, concessionaire,
theater operator, creator of novelties.  Menches suffered a heart attack at his
home here and died last night.
   The carnival man, who had watched many of the noisy efforts of human
beings to find pleasure, sat in his concession at the St. Louis world's fair,
glancing idly about.
   Two girls in a nearby ice cream stand had wrapped waffles around ice
ctream and were eating with gusto.
   Menches sprang from his chair with a shout of convistion and the ice cream
cone virtually was created.  He founded the first cone company in 1905.


   5 December 1931, INDIANA EVENING GAZETTE (Indiana, Pennsylvania), pg. 3,
col. 5:
_INVENTOR OF ICE_
   _CREAM CONE DEAD_
   AKRON, O., Dec. 5--UP--Charles E. Menches, 72, who invented the ice cream
cone and thereby created an American institution, died here on Thursday night.
   He was a circus trapeze performer, a concessionaire, theatre operator and
creator of novelties.
   Death followed a heart attack.


   16 August 1935, HELENA INDEPENDENT (Helena, Montana), pg.1, col. 4:
_ICE CREAM CONE INVENTOR_
   _DULY PUNISHED FOR CRIME_
   Bozeman, Aug. 16.--(AP)--Walter McLaren of Cooke City, gold mine operator
and reputedly the originator of the ice cream cone, paid a fine of $350 in
justice court here after he pleaded guilty to driving an automobile while he was
intoxicated.
   (Whew!  I thought it was the crime of inventing the ice cream cone--ed.)

   2 August 1941, HELENA INDEPENDENT (Helena, Montana), pg.5, col. 2:
...Walter McLaren of the McLaren Gold Mines company, Cooke City and the M, &
M. Mining company of Radersburg.
   Mr. McLaren achieved world fame as the inventor of the ice cream cone.

   22 August 1945, INDEPENDENT-RECORD (Helena, Montana), pg.
_Funeral Services_
_Are Conducted_
_For Mining Man_
   _Walter McLaren Was_
   _Widely Engaged_
   _Over This State_
(...)  He became an inventor and in 1912. hit upon the ice cream cone gadget
that still is employed by some of the biscuit companies.


   1 May 1943, CHARLESTON DAILY MAIL (Charleston, West Virginia), pg.4, col.
4:
   Ernest A. Hamwi, who claimed to be the inventor of the ice cream cone,
died recently in St. Louis.


   25 July 1921, DECATUR DAILY REVIEW (Decatur, Illinois), pg. 6, col. 1:
      SAMBO THE GREAT
   Know Sambo Jackson?  The next time you eat ice cream, buy a sundae, order
a "banana split" or take a grape ice just remember the name of Sambo Jackson,
a one time negro chef in a New York tavern who in July, 1816, gave to an
astonished patron of his employers restaurant the first dish of ice cream ever
served to any one.
   Sambo was its inventor and if his discovery of the new delicacy whoch was
destined to conquer the western world, and eventually Europe, was accidental,
as it is said to be, he was wise enough to keep the secret of the process for
a long time, securing to himself the early monopoly on the manufacture of ice
cream.
   A monument to Sambo as one of the real beneficiaries of the human race
would be quite fitting.  True, ice cream is not a necessity but who would deny
that it adds to the joy of living--and that is quite as much worth whiles as
adding to the ability to live.
   Some things make life possible--others make life worth while.  We must
have the former but we are far from despising the latter.