Antedating of "Lobbyist"

[Fred Shapiro]

On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Dave Wilton wrote:

>> From the 19 January 1848 Dixon (Illinois) _Evening Telegraph_
> (Newspaperarchive.com):
>
> The death of Joseph F. Freeman, a congressional lobbyist, has closed one
> phase of the Garsson-May war contracts fraud case.

On Newspaperarchive, 1848 hits from the Dixon Evening Telegraph are like
1949 hits from the Elyria, Ohio paper: they're all misdatings.  In
general, one should always look at the page images on Newspaperarchive to
check for misdatings.

Fred Shapiro


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