beanery = cheap restaurant

[George Thompson]

HDAS has 1887, 1889, &c

        They claim that the cheap restaurants like Flynn’s, or “beaneries,” as they call them, obstruct the ventilation, and that their kitchens give forth gases and heat, which . . . hasten the early decay of all perishable goods in the old market.
        New York Times, November 16, 1884, p. 14

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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

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