Further Antedating of "Real McCoy"

[George Thompson]

I've just seen a notice of the California Digital Newspaper Collection, and so, of course, I searched it for the word "jazz", and variants.  Among a few matches, it pulled up an item from the Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 53, Number 5, 27 February 1885.  Upon examination, it appears that the OCR found "jass" in a twirl of hair in an illustration to a wig-maker's ad.

The technology is not yet perfected, it seems.

http://cdnc.ucr.edu/newsucr

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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

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