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Hamburgers in the News

1893	“Fraker’s celebrated Hamburger steak sandwiches are always on hand to replenish an empty stomach and even fortify Satan himself.”—Evening Gazette (Reno, Nevada)

1895	“Mike’s face looked like a Hamburger sandwich.”—Washington Times (Washington, District of Columbia)

1896	“A distinguished favorite, only five cents, is Hamburger steak sandwich, the meat for which is kept ready in small patties and cooked while you wait on the gasoline range.”—Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois)

1897	“He was very drunk and knocked a hamburger sandwich out of her hand.”—St. Louis-Post Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri)

1905	“Try a hamburger steak sandwich at Worsham & Zook’s”—Chariton Courier (Keytesville, Missouri)

1906	“Harris was cooking a hamburger steak sandwich for a hungry car conductor who had come in from a run and was deftly flopping the steak on its other side, when leakage from the gasoline stove tank became ignited and exploded.”—Buffalo Courier (Buffalo, New York)

1907	“Don’t forget that we are the people that can satisfy your hunger with an Oyster Stew, or a Bowl of Chile, or a good old Hamburger Sandwich. We also have one of the choicest lines of fine cigars in town”—LA Reinecke, The Owl Cafe; in The Louisburg Herald (Louisburg, Kansas)

1909	“Fort Scott People Are Turning into Hamburg Sandwich Fiends”—Headline, Fort Scott Tribune-Monitor (Fort Scott, Kansas)

1910

“D.H. Culmer is recovering from a severe attack of ptomaine poisoning. He ate a hamburger steak sandwich at a restaurant and was soon taken with convulsions, suffering extremely. Several men were required to hold him. A physician worked with him for four hours, after which he was removed to his home from the grocery store of C.E. Payne, where he is employed”—Evening Times-Republican (Marshalltown, Iowa)

1911	“S.R. Maxson Has the ONLY place to get a nice cup of coffee or hot hamburger sandwich.”—The Argos Reflector (Argos, Indiana)

1911

“Perhaps the oddest bit of evidence ever filed in a Court of Justice was a hamburger sandwich, turned over today to Prosecutor Burns from the Justice’s Court of Harry Hughes, in the case of the State of Ohio against Tom Buzanik, recently fined thirty-five dollars for the alleged mixing of salt of sulphur in this hamburger meat, in order to give it a rich appearance. Buzanik appealed the case. The hamburger sandwich is now several weeks old, and its odor is strengthening with age.”—The Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, Ohio)

1918	“Hot Hamburger Steak Sandwich with Brown Gravy from Statler’s Lunch—twenty cents”—The Buffalo Times (Buffalo, New York)

1919	“Hamburger Steak Sandwich from Kresge’s five and ten Store—five cents”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis Missouri)

Did You Know?

In 1918, “Liberty Steak” would become a common replacement for the word hamburger steak. Americans were getting out of World War I, and with patriotism on a high, the use of a German word was not going to fly. Later on, during World War II at the 1941 National Association of Retail Meat Merchants, butchers agreed to change the name of hamburgers to “defense steak.” Much like liberty steak before it, defense steak was in use for a few years before it disappeared altogether.