Windy City (12 February 1877); Jazz notes

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   Greetings again from the Library of Congress.

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WINDY CITY

   I requested the CINCINNATI ENQUIRER for 1876 and 1877.  The entire year of 1876 is "missing."  I suspect that someone perhaps is sabotaging my work.  It wouldn't be my life if I got money or credit.
   Anyway, here's the latest...The Chicago Public Library still has not changed its web site from the New York Sun 1893 World's Fair myth.  How many months and years to change text?


   12 February 1877, CINCINNATI (DAILY) ENQUIRER, Pg. 5, col. 2:
   _CHICAGO LETTER._
_Gossip and Impressions of the Windy_
      _City._
__Special Correspondence of the Enquirer.__
      CHICAGO, February 10, 1877.
   What this city was before the fire I know not.  What it was after the fire I should like to forget.  But what it is to-day is remarkable.  Verily it might be called the Phoenix City, so striking is its resurrection from its own ashes.  Europeans look upon it as the coming city of America, and it is no wonder when we take even a casual glimpse at its resources and progressive prosperity. (...)
(Col. 3--ed.)
      MARIE T. COURCELLES.

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JAZZ

   The Library of Congress does _not_ have the LOS ANGELES EXAMINER for this year.
   The LOS ANGELES EVENING HERALD has been very interesting--there's a slangy cartoonist of the "TAD" mold.  However, I've failed to find "jazz."  There are interesting items on new dances ("turkey trot") and a food column by a chef of the St. Regis.
   The LOS ANGELES TIMES item--now famous in our little group, still unknown to the great masses--is very clear on this microfilm.

   2 April 1912, LOS ANGELES TIMES, part III, pg. 2, col. 1:
      _BEN'S JAZZ CURVE._
   "I got a new curve this year," softly murmured Henderson yesterday, "and I'm goin' to pitch one or two of them tomorrow.  I call it the Jazz ball because it wobbles and you simply can't do anything with it."
   As prize fighters who invent new punches are always the first to get their's Ben will probably be lucky if some guy don't hit that new Jazzer ball a mile today.  It is to be hoped that some unintelligent compositor does not spell that the Jag ball.  That's what it must be at that if it wobbles.

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ARRUGULA

   I gotta find time to work on "arrugula" for OED.  Any more requests for my day in Washington?  Lower the deficit?  World peace?