Forget That Antedating

Sun Aug 13 23:08:37 UTC 2006

On Sun, 13 Aug 2006, Fred Shapiro wrote:

> movie (OED 1912)
>
> 1910 _Modesto Evening News_ 13 Mar. 2 (Newspaperarchive)  (heading) Movie
> studio for S.F.

Forget that antedating.  Internal evidence makes it certain that this
page is actually dated 1917 or later.

Fred Shapiro

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