Barry Popik sends 1890's information on "Hot Dog"

Cohen, Gerald Leonard gcohen at MST.EDU
Wed Feb 11 18:21:01 UTC 2009


Barry Popik sent the message below to several ads-l members, and I now forward it to the entire list.  Barry has done extensive research on "hot dog," and in 2004 he, the late David Shulman and I authored a book on the term.

When I have time, I'll look closely at the new information to help determine its significance.

Gerald Cohen
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> From:         Barry Popik
> Sent:         Tuesday, February 01101520092009 4:21
> Subject:      "Hot Dog" in Google Books (1893?, 1894, 1896)
>
> I noticed that Google Books has digitized some Yale material and much else.
> ...
> <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=tToiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA92&dq=%22hot+dog%22+date:1890-1899&lr=&num=100&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES&ei=K0-RScGgIISUzATlpKz1CQ">Google Books</a>
> MIAMI UNIVERSITY
> THE RECENSIO
> COLLEGE ANNUAL
> 1893
> VOLUME ONE
> From the Press of
> The Oxford News Company
> Oxford, Ohio
> Pg. 92:
> FAVORITE EJACULATIONS.
> (...)
> "Hot! Dog!"
> ...
> ...
> <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=lR9MAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA155&dq=%22hot+dog%22+date:1890-1899&lr=&num=100&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES&ei=K0-RScGgIISUzATlpKz1CQ">Google Books</a>
> December 1894, <i>Yale Literary Magazine</i>, pg. 155:
> The morning summons of the alarm clock is the voice of an angel of wrath proclaiming the dawning of a perennial day of judgment, and the sleepy proprietors of the "Quick and Dirty" and the "Hot Dog on Wheels" grow to know our nightly visits so well that they call us by our first names; and the State street canine digs up all his buried bones and retires into forests about Lake Whitney until the raw material for domestic frankfurters returns ot its par value.
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> The New Harvard Song Book: A Collection of the Latest College Songs and ...? - Page 142
>
> by Robert Treat Whitehouse, Frederick Bruegger - Students' songs - 1896 - 92 pages
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> Oh those little old hot dogs ! Those little old hot dogs ! ... We would put
> fourteen away Just before we hit the hay > ->  Those little old hot dogs that ...
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> The Harvard Advocate? - Page 107
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> by Harvard University - College students' writings, American - 1896
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> Soon we reached it, and plumping ourselves down on the benches, filled ourselves
> with " hot dogs " and steaming coffee, that cheered and warmed us. ...
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