Windy City (1856 for Green Bay, WI)

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>Newspaperarchive is getting better by the day.  Still painful, but  getting
better.
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NewspaperArchive crashed on me several times in the last  hour...Newsbank
still hasn't updated its content list for America's Historical  Newspapers. I
wrote to them again about the Series 4 and Series 5 releases.
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This NewspaperArchive "windy city" shows that the sarcastic "wind" usage  had
been applied at a very early date.
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21 June 1856, Menasha (WI) Advocate, pg. 3, col. 1:
The Green Bay _Advocate_ comes this week, containing three long columns of
gas and wind expended in that windy city on Monday last in honor of STEVE
HOTALING'S arrival there with his steam barge from Menasha, through the Neenah
channel.



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