further antedating "fair to middling" (1824)

[Joel S. Berson]

Eastern Argus (Portland, Maine), 23 March 1824, p. 3, col. 3.
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J. Haskell
Has just received 4 cases prime HATS, new style---also, 4 cases
imitation HATS, at $2, "from fair to middling."

Joel

At 10/6/2007 08:31 AM, Stephen Goranson wrote:
>New-York Spectator, (New York, NY) Friday, October 26, 1827; p.1 col E
>      Multiple News Items
>Category: News [col. F]
>The exhibition [a fair and cattle-show in Brighton], we believe, was in no
>respect extraordinary, but in all respects, as our friend from the "Record"
>used to say of the molasses market at Thanksgivig, "from fair to middling."

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