"On Third Avenue" from "Vagabond in New York" (1913)

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These databases and blogs are overwhelming. I'm looking for "cruller," "cup 
cake," "Santa Claus," and various slang terms. So many places to look, so many 
different search terms.
  
I came across this in the Cornell University Library New York State 
Historical Literature database.
  
Remember "on line" and "in line"?
  
A VAGABOND IN NEW YORK
by Oliver Madox Hueffner
New York: John Lane Company
(Binghamton, NY: The Vail-Ballou Company)
1913
  
  
http://historical.library.cornell.edu/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/cul.nys/nys637?abs
tract=&pages=192
  
You would say "on Third Avenue," by the way, and never "in."
  
  
  
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From: Ben Zimmer (bgzimmer at midway.uchicago.edu)
Subject: Re: in/on line [WAS Re: on line, on-line, online [Was Re: 
Chauceron-line] 
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Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
Date: 2003-11-04 14:50:18 PST 
    
R F wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Michael  Hamm wrote:
> 
> > The "WAS" thread reminded me of an ad for Lands End (a company that sells
> > clothing retail via mail-, Web-, and phone-order).  Teh ad, posted on the
> > sides of New York City busses, read something like "Shop online instead 
of
> > in line."  Now, in New York City, that's ludicrous, because no one shops
> > standing in line anyway.  People shop standing on line.  'Standing in
> > line', in NYC, means, standing in a straight line; 'standing on line', in
> > NYC, means waiting on a queue.  (DARE agrees with me.)
> 
> You are correct, sir.  I found a late 19th century example of this usage,
> but it might have been a typo.
  
I'd be interested to see it-- I haven't found any 19th-century examplesof 
"stand on line" in the New York Times archives.  And "wait on line"doesn't show 
up until the fin de siècle, in a Sep. 1, 1899 "Notice toTaxpayers" (reprinted 
every September for several more years):
  
Taxpayers in this manner will receive their bills at the earliest possible 
moment and avoid any delay caused by waiting on lines, as required in case of 
personalapplication.