"Chicken or the Egg"

[Fred Shapiro]

I am again in a place without access to ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
Is anyone willing to check for me what is the earliest hit on PQHN for the
expression "which came first, the chicken or the egg?"

Fred Shapiro


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