Ancestry destroys the "pie a la mode" legend. Antedating (1895)

[Sam Clements]

Once you find out which terms to punch into which boxes over at Ancestry,
you can fly.  It takes forever to tune up that suck-ass search engine,
though.

Using "pie mode" in place of "first name" and "second name," you come up
with a cite from 1895 from the Newark(OH) Advocate:

     There was a big sign in the window which read this way:

............................................................................
 .                 PIE A LA MODE,
                             10 Cents.
............................................................................

So Mr. Townsend and his consort, Ms. Berry Hall,  must have heard the term
from somewhere else, perhaps Ohio :)

I've not finished searching, but had to share the info found thus far.

SC