Hamburg Sandwich (1898); Taxicab (1906?)

[Baker, John]

        The 1899 citation is still on the Times' website.  The New York
Times provides scans of the articles in question, but does not include a
scan of the date, so users are dependent on the date provided by the
Times.  Just how unreliable are these?  Are we talking Google Books
levels of unreliability?


John Baker


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Subject: Hamburg Sandwich (1898); Taxicab (1906?)

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TAXICAB
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Grant Barrett has informed me that the 1899 New York Times "taxicab"
ProQuest database citation is in error, and I've removed it from my
website. I hate it when he does that and I have to revise old work.
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