"hot dog" article, 1913: Origin of "hot dog" is too embarrassing to tell

[Gerald Cohen]

This is message # 2 on Meade's 1913 "hot dog" article. In col. 1 we
see here an indirect reference to the popular 19th century belief
(true!) that sausages sometimes contained dog meat:

'"Hot dog" is the libel slang writers have [illegible; put?] on
the                weinerwurst, or rather, the Frankfurter.  It is
sometimes referred to as a young sausage, picked before it is ripe.
Its--origin--well let's hark back to our story, and let's not believe
all we hear about the weinie.'

Gerald Cohen