"San Antone"

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> Poster:       Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
> Subject:      Re: "San Antone"
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> I love stimulating needed research.
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>   Ten years back it would have taken one million of my own
> man-hours to unearth these exx.
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>   So I'da shined it on.
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>   JL
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> "Mullins, Bill AMRDEC" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
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> "The German Barber's Joke"
> _Dallas Morning News_ 1885-10-19, Page 3 col 3 "Tutchy, gif
> me a San Antone shingle on der halluf shell, und a shampoo cocktail."
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> "Off for San Antone" [cite in headline]
> _Dallas Morning News_ 1885-10-19, Page 3 col 6 1890-08-10
> Sec: Part 2 Page 16
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> "San Antone Letter" [cite in headline]
> _Dallas Morning News_ 1894-06-17 Page 18 col 3.
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> "A View of Conditions" _DMN_ 1897-03-27 Page 4 col 2.
> "Not long ago it [the Dallas Morning News] sang the praises
> of Uncle Jake McGaughey, the poet legislator, who churned up
> the gulfs and seas of literature with the great epic,
> "Excurting to Fair San Antone." "
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> > I don't believe this familiar pronunciation of the name of
> the Texas
> > city is well documented before Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
> > released the song, "New San Antonio Rose" in 1940. (The "old" "San
> > Antonio Rose" was an instrumental.)
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> > 1899 Will Levington Comfort _Trooper Tales_ 135: Back to San Anton'.
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> > JL
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