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===Two Rivers, Wisconsin, in 1881=== [[File:Wisconsin Historical Marker ice cream sundae.jpg|thumb|Wisconsin Historical Marker detailing Two Rivers as the locale of the invention of the ice cream sundae β Central Park, [[Two Rivers, Wisconsin]]]] [[Two Rivers, Wisconsin|Two Rivers]]' claim is based on the story of George Hallauer asking Edward C. Berners, the owner of Berners' Soda Fountain, to drizzle chocolate syrup over ice cream in 1881. Berners eventually did and wound up selling the treat for a nickel, originally only on Sundays, but later every day. According to this story, the spelling changed when a glass salesman ordered canoe-shaped dishes. When Berners died in 1939, the ''Chicago Tribune'' headlined his obituary "Man Who Made First Ice Cream Sundae Is Dead".<ref name="obit">{{cite news | title = Man Who Made First Ice Cream Sundae Is Dead | work = [[Chicago Daily Tribune]] | pages = 1 | date =July 2, 1939 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tworiverseconomicdevelopment.org/relocation/history-sundae.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050501071945/http://www.tworiverseconomicdevelopment.org/relocation/history-sundae.htm|archive-date=1 May 2005 |title= Two Rivers - The Real Birthplace of the Ice Cream Sundae |publisher= Two Rivers Economic Development |access-date=2007-06-26}}</ref> Residents of Two Rivers have contested the claims of other cities to the right to claim the title "birthplace of the ice cream sundae". When [[Ithaca, New York]]'s mayor [[Carolyn K. Peterson]] proclaimed a day to celebrate her city as the birthplace of the sundae, she received postcards from Two Rivers' citizens reiterating that town's claim.<ref name=war>{{cite news |author=Laura Zaichkin |title=Sundae wars continue between Ithaca and Two Rivers |work=[[Ithaca Journal]] |date=June 30, 2006 }}</ref> Berners would have only been 16 or 17 in 1881, so it is therefore "improbable" that he would have owned an ice cream shop in that year. They{{who|date=February 2025}} also state that the obituary dates Berners' first sundae to 1899 rather than 1881.<ref name=visitithaca>{{cite web|url=http://www.visitithaca.com/media-services/birthplace-of-the-sundae.html|title=Documenting Ithaca New York as the Home of the Ice Cream Sundae|work=Ithaca Convention & Visitors Bureau|year=2007|access-date=2007-08-20|archive-date=2009-10-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091001180255/http://www.visitithaca.com/Media-Services/Birthplace-of-the-Sundae.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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