An early "hot dog"/non-college (1896)--(was: ...1897)

[Gerald Cohen]

At 7:05 PM -0400 10/25/03, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>Subject:      Re: An early "hot dog"/non-college (1896)--(was: ...1897)
>
>    I posted this 1896 citation months ago.  No one remembers?


Sorry, below my signoff is Barry's full message once more.

Gerald Cohen



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>  Subject:      Missouri-Show Me (9 May 1897, WASHINGTON POST)
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>      Greetings from the Library of Congress.  They don't officially
>subscribe yet, but I have FULL TEXT TO THE WASHINGTON POST.  Send
>your queries now.
>
>  HOT DOG
>     13 February 1896, WASHINGTON POST, pg. 6:
>     One thousand Sioux warriors met at Pine Ridge and over a large
>number of cold bottles and hot dogs discussed their alleged
>grievances.
>  (Whew!  That's close!--ed.)
>
>  WINDY CITY
>     13 July 1887, WASHINGTON POST, pg. 2.
>  (Not close--ed.)
>
>  BIG APPLE
>     20 September 1924, WASHINGTON POST, pg. S2:
>     SPOT CASH a two-time winner around the big apple...
>  (A horse-racing column.  Fitz Gerald's brother wrote for the
>WASHINGTON POST.  Pretty darn close--ed.)
>
>  MISSOURI--SHOW ME
>     9 May 1897, WASHINGTON POST, pg. 27:
>        _HE NEVER SAW A TUNNEL._
>  _So the Man from Missouri Leaped Headlong from a Train._
>  From the Philadelphia Times.
>     "I'm from Missouri, and they'll have to show me."
>     That is what John Duffer, of Pike County, Missouri, remarked as
>he was being patched up in the office of Dr. Creighton at Manitou.
>
>  (Cut about seven paragraphs to end of story.  I believe this
>article is our earliest and pre-dates the Trans-Mississippi
>Exposition in Omaha and the song, both in 1897--ed.)
>
>     "When the train went into that hole I thought we'd never see
>daylight again, and my only chance was to jump, and so I jumped.
>I'm from Missouri, and you'll have to show me!"
>