"I'm from Missouri--Show Me" (1894)

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My wife actually let me out of the house to go to the library this  Saturday.
I checked the America's Historical Newspapers database (from Readex  and the
American Antiquarian Society) and have new "show me" information.
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This all sinks Congressman Willard Van Diver and his 1900 alleged use, and
the 1896 use by Colorado miners.
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28 October 1894, <i>Sunday World-Herald</i> (Omaha, NE), pg.  10:
Johnson (John S. Johnson, a bicycle rider --ed.) says that he can cover a
mile in 1:30 flat, but being from Missouri he will have to show me.
EATON.
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13 November 1894, <i>Morning World-Herald</i> (Omaha, NE), pg.  3:
<i>They're From Missouri.</i>
Fowler, Dick & Walker, against whom P. H. Fotheringham has brought a  $10,000
damage suit, are from Missouri and want to be shown. They have filed in  the
district court a motion for a more specified statement on the part of
Fotheringham.
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23 December 1894, <i>Sunday World-Herald</i> (Omaha, NE), pg.  18:
A few days after that "a tall, long, lank, underfed, wall-eyed, slab-sided,
hatchet-faced girl" from the state where you have to "show me" came up to the
window with an "I say, mister, what's the fare down home again?"
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1 December 1895, <i>Sunday World-Herald</i> (Omaha, NE), pg.  19:
Your uncle will not believe that Omaha will be in the Western league until
along in the shank of next season, when a team with the word "Omaha" emblazoned
 upon the shirts of players in actual service can be shown to him. And he is
not  from Missouri, either.
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21 February 1896, <i>Sunday World-Herald</i> (Omaha, NE), pg.  3:
This ballot was also made formal and Mr.  (W. H. --ed.) Bradley was  called
for. He was bashful, but the convention howled until he mounted the  platform
declaring, "I'm from Missouri and have to be  shown."

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