antedating?: "top dollar" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Douglas G. Wilson
douglas at NB.NET
Tue Apr 24 01:35:04 UTC 2007
>[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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