Harvard Lampoon & Google Books project

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Google Books has an agreement with the New York Public Library, as we know,
and it appears that the Harvard Lampoon has been digitized at last!
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A check for "Harvard Lampoon" and "hot dog" shows:
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_The Harvard Lampoon - Page 89_
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC01751806&id=1hAUAAAAIAAJ&q="hot+dog"+and+harvard+lampoon&dq="hot+dog"+and+harvard+lam
poon&ie=ISO-8859-1)
1876
The  Harvard Lampoon IT is with considerable apprehension and not a ...  of
the
soul- (and stomach-) stirring season of the " hot dog," the  friend of man.
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Snippet view
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Click that, and you find:
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    Published 1876
Harvard Lampoon  Original from the New York Public Library  Digitized Oct 24,
2006
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There are three matching pages--89, 198, 134. No dates are given. No text  is
given--just the top of the page reading "The Harvard Lampoon."
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Is there no way to read the text or to find the date of the text? How could
Google Books be so stupid with information probably in the public domain (over
 75 years old)?

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