Antedating of "Frankfurter"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Searches of online databases often fail to retrieve articles that have the keywords being searched for.  I have verified this citation two different ways, it's definitely in there at the issue and page indicated.

Fred Shapiro


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Subject: Re: Antedating of "Frankfurter"

I thought I would point out that a NYTimes search does not bring this story
up anywhere in the the Sept. 3-8, 1877 timeframe.

DanG


On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> Fred, where were these Frankfurters being served?
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> Joel
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> At 5/11/2014 02:40 PM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
> >Frankfurter (OED 1894)
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> >[1877 _N.Y. Times_ 3 Sept. 8 (Newspapers.com)  In the way of
> >eatables, Frankfurter sausage with sauerkraut ... proved the most
> >potent attractions.]
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> >Fred Shapiro
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