OED SF database (more) (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

 Fandom -- OED SF database has 1896

_Inter Ocean_, published as _Daily Inter Ocean_; Date: 11-14-1895;
Volume: XXIV; Issue: 235; Page: 4; column 3; Location: Chicago, Illinois


"Emperors of Fandom"  [headline to article about post season meeting of
baseball club owners]

antigravity -- OED SF database has 1909

Paper: Wheeling Register, published as Wheeling Register.; Date:
12-20-1896; Volume: 35; Issue: 161; Page: [10]; col 1 Location:
Wheeling, West Virginia
"In the Deep of Time" by George Parsons Lathrop in collaboration with
Thomas A. Edison
"Word comes from Mars that one Bronson, who had started for that planet
in an anti-gravity machine, has not arrived there, and later that a
messenger from Mars in on his way to the Earth."

meteor storm -- OED SF database requests interdatings 1877 - 1928

Paper: Wheeling Register, published as Wheeling Register.; Date:
12-20-1896; Volume: 35; Issue: 161; Page: [10]; col 1 Location:
Wheeling, West Virginia
"A rapid survey through my peep-holes showed me I was so far right, I
was caught in a meteor storm."

[in addition to "anti-gravity" and "meteor storm", this article had
cites for "stellar car" (= spaceship) and "stellar aeronaut" (=
astronaut).]


Paper: Worcester Daily Spy, published as The Worcester Spy; Date:
11-02-1903; Page: 8; col 3. Location: Worcester, Massachusetts
"November Skies" T. F. O'Connor
"There were brilliant showers of Leonids or meteors near the middle of
November in the years 1799, 1833, 1866, 1867, and 1868, and it was
confidently anticipated that the phenomena would recur in 1899 and 1900,
but little or nothing was seen of the expected meteor storm."

intergalactic -- OED SF database has 1928

Paper: Fort Worth Star-Telegram; Date: 05-02-1920; Volume: XL; Issue:
92; Section IV Page: Page [One]; Col 3. Location: Fort Worth, Texas
"He descanted upon star spirals "as presumably inter-galactic objects of
peculiar construction, that is, a part of a grand system and not
individual galaxies or other universes."
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Caveats: NONE

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