Milk Shake (1888)

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   The revised OED has 1889 for "milk shake"?  This NEW YORK TIMES citation
is 1888, from Chicago.  Clearly, the online CHICAGO TRIBUNE and BROOKLYN
DAILY EAGLE should help here.
   John Mariani has 1885, but he's probably just using a guesstimate made by
the Random House Dictionary.  Merriam-Webster has 1886.  I submitted a (now
lost?) citation like this to the old ADS-L archives, I think from VOGUE.  It
should re-appear when the American Periodicals Series online finishes the
digital work for all of its periodicals.


   20 June 1888, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 1:
   In every niche of the Auditorium except the entrances and along
Congress-street on the south side, lemonade and "milk shake" stands tempted
the thirsty, and the thirsty fell in droves.


   From Literature Online, and also Early Canadiana Online:


Fairbanks, Cassie:[from The Log of the Sail of the Sailors' Rest / Miss
Fairbanks [188-?]]
The Log of the Sail of the Sailors' Rest.
Fairbanks, Cassie:
Old Chebueto. [from The Log of the Sail of the Sailors' Rest / Miss Fairbanks
[188-?]]
Fairbanks, Cassie: Old Chebueto. [from The Log of the Sail of the Sailors'
Rest / Miss Fairbanks [188-?]]


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93          Our delights are oft succeeded---
94                  By anxious gusts of thoughts,
95    But into safest Havens,---
96                  Your voyaging will be brought
97          If you listen to the wisdom, that
98                Counsels the expending---
99          On the useful, the appropriate
100                Means, that should be unending---
101        The charming Mentors taking charge
102                Will urge, with low ton'd voice
103        The "survival of the fittest" in
104                Your philosophic choice.

105        Then dreamingly artistic---you will
106                Gaze with rapt emotion
107        On Coleridges "Painted ship upon
108                A painted Ocean,"
109        Till parch'd with aquarelles unique
110                You will be apt to think---
111        Of "Water, water everywhere
112                But not a drop to drink"---
113        But having bought your Phantom Sketch
114                You'll rush off, to obtain
115        Invigoration, as alone
116                A Milk shake can contain:  (THIS
LINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!--ed.)
117        Or, a cup of German Coffee,---
118                From a real German Frau,
119        Surrounded by blonde peasant Girls
120                From Faterland you'll vow---
121        If you can spare a moment's grace
122                The gay idea to catch---
123        You'll find that repartee is hot
124                Within the Kaffe Klatch.

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