"Bowl of Red" (chili)

[Barbara Need]

>Any help on "bowl of red"?

Line break? I would read this as a bowl of "red hot chili".

Barbara

Barbara Need
UChicago

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>5 October 1934, Dunkirk (NY) <i>Evening Observer</i>, pg. 16  ad:
><i>Erie Hotel Grill</i>
>Dance to the WOODCLIFFE
>and Try
>A Plate of Our Delicious
>Fish or a Bowl of Red
>Hot Chili
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><i>With or Without Beans</i>
>by Joe E. Cooper
>Dallas, TX: William S. Henson, Inc.
>1952
>(Some mentions--ed.)
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>(Library of Congress record)
>     Type of Material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)  Personal
>Name: _Tolbert,  Frank X._
>(http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SC=Author&SEQ=20061024191643&PID=15184&SA=Tolbert,+Frank+X.)
>Main Title: A bowl of
>red [by] Frank X. Tolbert.  Edition Information: [1st ed.]  Published/Created:
>Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1966.  Description: 120 p. 22 cm.
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