jerk-water antedated to 1865

[Stephen Goranson]

New York Times, Sunday Sept 24, 1865, p. 2, col. 6:
Kentucky
Returning to the Borders of Liberty--...--Condition of the Railroads--....
....A little jerk-water engine, which looks as if it was stuck together
simultaneously with the building of Noah's ark, runs "wild" through
this wild region as often as they get a load of people and other things.

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

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