Antedating of Flea Market (UNCLASSIFIED)

Tue Jul 8 14:56:19 UTC 2008

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The same quote appears in Gale 19th Century newspapers:

Daily Evening Bulletin (San Francisco, CA) Monday, August 17, 1891; pg.
4; Issue 112; col C
Daily Evening Bulletin (San Francisco, CA) Friday, October 16, 1891;
Issue 8; col H

And the same anecdote, phrased differently, in Gale British Newspapers
1600 - 1900:

"PARIS DAY BY DAY"
The Belfast News-Letter (Belfast, Ireland), Tuesday, July 28, 1891; p. 6
col 7.
"There is going on just now near the Barriere de Montreuil, at the
extreme east end
of Paris a sale of rubbish, familiarly known to its frequenters by the
unattractive
name of the "Flea Market." "

Gale 19th Century British Periodicals has an 1856 for "Flea Market", but
it is literally that -- a market in which fleas are sold for Flea
Circuses.

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> OED and MW11 both have 1922.
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> N'archive has _Janesville(WI) Gazette_  4 November 1891 p, 3/4
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>   "Near the Barriere de Montreuil, in Paris, they have sales
> of odds and = ends known as the "flea market."  A woman
> recently bought a dilapidated = old mattress and, cutting it
> open, found 14,000 francs in gold."
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