For Pete's Sake (1915)

[Michael Quinion]

> 10 May 1915, EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER (Edwardsville, Illinois),
> pg.2, col. 5: "For Pete's sake!  Much of the back porch?" gasped Mr.
> Townsend.

I'll raise you:

1907 C. E. Mulford "Bar-20" Chapter XVII "For Pete's sake, has any
more of yu fellers been up to K. C.?" queried the proprietor in
alarm.

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