"Hamburger" (illegible) in Butte Daily Miner (1886)

[Barry A. Popik]

Sorry about that. It's "hamburger eels." But how about these cites for  early
hamburger and cheeseburger sandwiches?
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21 May 1890, Hamilton (OH) Daily Democrat, "Chas. Howard's Remarkable
Success," pg. 2, col. 2:
An adjunct to the bar is the lunch counter where at any hour steak
sandwiches, genuine turtle soup, Frankfurter sausages, pork and beans, Hamburger
steak, sweet breads, imported sardines, Roquefort cheese, cold roast beef, cold
beef tongue, shrimp salad, lobster salad, and in fact anything hot or cold that
the fancy can suggest or appetite crave can be had at a moment's notice.
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17 June 1890, Hamilton (OH) Daily Democrat, pg. 3, col. 4 ad:
The Magnolia Saloon and Restaurant
208 High Street. Philip Stepp, Proprietor.
Has been newly remodeled and fitted up in first-class style. I have also
placed in my room
A New Improved Kahn & Bro. Gas Stove and Lunch Counter.
Where you can now obtain at any hour all kinds of Sandwiches,  Hamburger
Sausage, Spring Chicken, Turtle Soup, Sardines, Cheese, Ham
Boston Baked Beans, Etc., cooked to order on short notice.
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10 November 1905, Marshall (MI) Expounder, pg. 6, col. 4:
Before he went to bed he had three bottles of beer, several hamburger
sandwiches with onions, cheese, rye bread and finished off with a particularly  bad
cigar. (...) --Emporia, Kan. Gazette.



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