Cafeteria(1894);Geoduck(1881);Enchilades(1881);Red Hots(1886);Fan(1886);Fudge

Tue Nov 7 17:36:37 UTC 2006

OK, so I broke into the "19th Century U.S. Newspapers" database somewhere
and checked some terms.
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4 October 1894, Penny Press (Cleveland, OH), pg. 2:
The PENNY PRESS can safely recommend to the public that the Midland Cafe and
Cafeteria, Nos. 16 and 18 Fourth street south, the old W. C. T. U. Coffee
house beats them all. Its the place for ladies. There's no better for gentlemen.
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13 May 1881, The North American, pg. 1:
IF WE MAY RELY UPON THE LAST REPORT of the proceedings of the Philadelphia
Academy of Natural Sciences, Washington Territory has contributed to the
markets of the world an edible mollusk which seems likely to become famous with
epicures all over the world. It is called the geoduck, and if the reports be
true, the best thing that can be done along the Pacific coast and on the
Atlantic seaboard is to set to work to propagate the geoduck for general
consumption. If that can be done, it will rival the oyster in universal popularity.
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13 December 1881, Los Angeles Daily Times, pg. 4:
MEXICAN RESTAURANT
13 Main Street, Los Angeles
HILARIO PRECIADO...PROPRIETOR
MEALS at all hours of the day or night in every style, Spanish, French and
American cooking. The favorite Mexican dishes, Tamales, Enchilades, Carne Con
Chile, Albundigas, etc., etc., to be got at all hours.
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8 July 1833, New-York Spectator, pg. 2:
Some thirty days ago, I was inquiring in Cincinnati for the West, and they
said it was among "the Hoosiers" of Indiana, or "the Suckers" of Illinois--cant
 names given the residents of these States.
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9 July 1885, Milwaukee Sentinel, pg. 2:
The New York giants were outplayed all around to-day by the St. Louis league
club before an audience of about 2,500 people.
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18 May 1897, Morning Oregonian, pg. 6:
Brooklyn Batted Hard and Won.
ST. LOUIS, May 17.--The "Trolley Dodgers" hit Esper so freely today that
Manager Dowd substituted Hutchinson in the third inning.
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20 July 1886, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, pg. 5:
A SIGH of relief has gone up from the heart of many a base ball fan owing to
the fact that the cowboys left for the East last night. They will still lose
games, but we won't have to see them.--[Kansas City Times.
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12 November 1886, Daily Inter Ocean, pg. 3:
It was a hot supper last night. "Weiner-wursts," or "red-hots" were the
sensation last evening.
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28 January 1894, Milwaukee Sentinel, pg. 11:
VASSAR FUDGES>
Chocolate Sweeties That Freshies
Make on the Sly.
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"Fudges," a chocolate sweetie that us a cross between a bonbon and a
cakelet, are very dear to the soul of a Vassar girl. "Fudge" parties are common in
that well-known institution, and there is a dark suspicion that the moral
sense of a "freshie"--only a freshie, let us hope--is blunted when the ways and
means to provide materials for an impromptu "fudge" are being considered.
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Chocolate and sugar, the two principal ingredients, can be kept on hand, but
milk and butter, which are also needed, are perishable articles and have to
be provided on the instant. But a Vassar freshman knows a thing or two, even
if she has not been at college very long. And if she is suddenly attacked an
hour after supper with pangs of hunger, of course she must go down to the
refectory and beg for a glass of milk and a piece of bread and butter to mitigate
her distress. And equally, of course, the sympathetic head of that
department was never known to refuse so natural a request.
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Two or three hungry (?) girls are all that are needed for a sizable party,
and if the bread is discarded, and only the milk and butter utilized, why,
Vassar dormitories tell no tales, and "fudges" are too good to be lightly
dispensed with.
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24 August 1898, Morning Oregonian, pg. 3:
"New drinks are not as young as people sometimes think," said the
supercilious barkeeper for a New York Sun reporter, "and anybody who thinks they are
has only to remember the Martini cocktail. As the Turf Club cocktail it was
popular nearly 20 years ago and the only change there has been in it since that
time is the name. Yet only a few years ago the Martini cocktail was looked
upon as something new.

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