'Jazz" discussed in baseball research group -- supposed musical antedatings in Newspaper Archives (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:57 AM -0500 7/13/09, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
>
>>  Thirdly, the Salt Lake Daily Tribune  (Utah) is said to contain SALT
>>  JAZZ for February 22, 1881, supposedly in the (somewhat jumbled)
>>  context:
>>                   Ail of SUbic SALT JAZZ cmf j. Walker Brothers. [sic]
>>  When I pull up the relevant page, it seems to be various ads, with
>print so
>>  tiny as to be illegible.  On the right are some adds with larger
>print. =
>>  I see Walker Brothers there, and unless the accompanying few words in
>>  tiny print contain mention of jazz, this term is not present there.
>In
>>  any case, what in the world would SALT JAZZ be?
>
>The last 3 words at the bottom of col 8 are "Salt Lake City".  Searching
>for "Jazz" on that page shows that the OCR has misread this phrase as
>"Salt Jazz".  "Subic" is really "stables", and "Walker Brothers" appears
>as the first words on top of the next column.
>

So not an antedate of, and motivation for, the Utah Jazz (who moved
to Salt Lake City from N'Awlins, not to be confused with N'Archive)
after all...

LH

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