Antedating of "Frankfurter"

Dan Goncharoff thegonch at GMAIL.COM
Mon May 12 02:14:20 UTC 2014


I found it through the TimesMachine, which shows the actual pages.

The event was a Suabian (or Swabian) Festival. A version of the festival is
still held today.

DanG


On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>wrote:

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> 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.
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> Fred Shapiro
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> 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.
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> 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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