Big Onion; Origin of "Paul Bunyan" (1904? 1906?)

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 10:56:41PM -0500, Barry Popik wrote:
> PAUL BUNYAN
> ...
> Searching for "Big Onion" led me to the Paul Bunyan stories and the
> "Big Onion River." Wikipedia states the first record of "Paul Bunyan"
> is 1906. Can anyone do better than this?
> ...
> ...
> 4 August 1904 Duluth (MN) <i>News Tribune</i>, pg. 4:

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So are you going to correct Wikipedia on this?

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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