"Honky Tonk" antedating (1889)

[Stephen Goranson]

ads-l archive (1 Mar 09) has 1890 "the honk-a-tonk (variety show)"
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0903A&L=ADS-L&P=R689

Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, January 24,
1889, Image 8
January 24, 1889, Page 8, [col. 3] Image 8

IMAGE: of 8. Image provided by: University of North Texas, Denton.

Persistent Link
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86064205/1889-01-24/ed-1/seq-8/

"A petition to the council is being circulated for signatures, asking that the
Honky Tonk theater on Main street be reopened."

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson

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