Putative "jazzbo" in 1918 NYT?

[Mark Mandel]

Possibly a different NYC newspaper?

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On Nov 7, 2007 10:52 AM, Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:

> Smith's entry for "jazz boes" reads in its entirety:
>
>  Yankee "Jazz Boes," as American coloured troops are called in
>  France, constructing a railway behind the front lines.--Under
>  a picture in New York _Times_, Nov. 3, 1918
>
> However, I can't find this in the NYT on Proquest, and I've
> flipped through this issue and don't even see a picture under
> which it could appear (in case the caption were for some
> reason not scanned). Furthermore the spelling of "coloured"
> and perhaps even the use of "railway" is odd for an American
> source. But this does not seem to be in the _Times_ of London
> either.
>
> Would anyone have any idea where this quotation is actually
> from? I suppose it would be possible to cite this as 1919, but
> since the book's entry consists solely of this putative
> citation, this would seem a little weird.
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
> OED
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