"Apple a Day" (addendum)

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>>Here's a food-related question for Barry and others:  Can anyone find "an
>>apple a day keeps the doctor away" before 1905?
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>_Anaconda [MT] Standard_, 23 Dec. 1900: p. 23, col. 5:
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><<An old saying has it that "an apple a day keeps the doctor away," and if
>so a bottle of good cider taken regularly at luncheon should make the
>medical profession superfluous.>>
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That's "from the Pall Mall Gazette".

-- Doug Wilson