antedating?: "top dollar" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>[classified ad], _Marion [Ohio] Star_, 3/27/1916, p. 17 col 2.
>"$ Top Dollar Paid $ Timber Wanted Good oak timber wanted at all times."

But it's 1946 rather than 1916, right?

-- Doug Wilson


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