Augusta Chronicle and Arnie's Army (1961), Vidalia Onion (1969), Half-Moon Pie

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AUGUST CHRONICLE (WWW.AUGUSTAARCHIVES.COM)

   The AUGUSTA CHRONICLE (Georgia) bills itself as "The South's oldest
newspaper--established 1785."  See "Digitization is a success for the Augusta
Archives,"  LIBRARY NEWS, Fall 2003, pg. 10:

http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/nln/nln03/nln261.pdf.

   I think that Fred Shapiro left "www.augustaarchives.com" off his list of
computer databases.
   Augusta Archives appears to use the same technology as the Utah newspaper
project.  It's a little better than Ancestry, which isn't saying much.
   I was surprised the most by what I didn't find, such as "chess pie."

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ARNIE'S ARMY

   It's a year earlier at the Augusta National.

   7 April 1961, AUGUSTA CHRONICLE, pg. 12-A, cols. 7-8:
_Did "Arnie's Army" cost_
_Player a stroke on 13th?_
By VERNON BUTLER
Associated Press Sports Writer

   12 April 1961, AUGUSTA CHRONICLE, pg. 6, col. 1 (by Johnny Hendrix, sports
editor):
   All the mass wasn't composed of Arnie's Army, as the Palmer gallery was
called.

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VIDALIA ONION

   This is just slightly after OED's May 1969 citation.  DARE?

   9 June 1969, AUGUSTA CHRONICLE, pg. 10, col. 3 (Piggly Wiggly ad):
TRY'EM--YOU'LL LOVE 'UM
VIDALIA
ONIONS
3 LBS. 29c

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MILK SHAKE

   A little later than the ATLANTA CONSTITUTION.

   28 April 1888, AUGUSTA CHRONICLE, pg. 4, col. 4:
AUGUSTA NATIONAL EXPOSITION
   Bids for Provoleges.
(...)
Milk Shake.

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MOON PIE

   Although there is a trademarked "moon pie" from Chattanooga, Tennessee,
"moon pie" is given on a Google Groups list of "American Regional Food" as a
specialty of Atlanta.

   26 March 1908, AUGUSTA CHRONICLE, pg. 8, col. 3:
   Bill Donohoo with his famous "citterlings" and cracklin' bread and Mrs.
Donohoo with her old time half moon pies and "simmon beer" (that the Georgia
legislature can't take away from us and give to somebody else.)

   23 February 1915, AUGUSTA CHRONICLE, pg. 6, col. 3:
      _Cutting the Pie Six Ways._
   The rise in prices of food stuffs on account of the European disturbances
has not escaped the restaurant pir.  In Atlanta the order has been sent down
the line to cut pies into six pieces, and to sell each piece for a nickel.
Foremrly the pies were cut in quarters and each pieces sold for a nickel.  Now
the respectable moon pie sells for thirty cents, instead of twenty cents as
formerly.--Lavonia Times.