Antedating of "Elephant Joke"

[Fred Shapiro]

elephant joke (OED 1966)

1954 _Edwardsville_ (Ill.) Intelligencer 15 May (Newspaperarchive.com)

Republicans have offered a $1 bounty on elephant jokes to be published in
a pamphlet as part of the celebration marking the party's founding here
100 years ago.


Fred Shapiro


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