Antedatings of "haywire"

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"haywire" (OED A. n., wire for binging hay, etc.: 1917)
Antedated to 1886.

"haywire" (OED B. 1. adj., poorly equipped, roughly contrived, inefficient: 1905)
Not antedated.

"haywire" (OED B. 2. a. adj. Of a person, circumstances, etc.: in an emotional state, tangled, involved, confused, crazy: 1934)
Antedated to 1928.

"haywire" (OED B. 2. b. adj. to go haywire: 1929)
Antedated to 1905.

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"haywire" (OED A. n., wire for binging hay, etc.: 1917)

Fort Worth daily gazette., May 06, 1886, Page 7, Image 7, advert for W. A. Huffman Implement Company:

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MOWERS AND HAY RAKES, HAY PRESSES, HAY TIES AND HAY WIRE.
[End]

Short: http://goo.gl/VZsjlu
Long: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86064205/1886-05-06/ed-1/seq-7/#date1=1836&sort=date&date2=1922&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=11&words=HAYWIRE&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=haywire&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1

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"haywire" (OED B. 2. a. adj. Of a person, circumstances, etc.: in an emotional state, tangled, involved, confused, crazy: 1934)

"Oh, Ranger!": A Book about the National Parks - Page 1, Horace Marden Albright, ‎Frank J. Taylor - 1928:

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"I got phone orders at Tuolumne Meadows to pack up and come over Sunrise Trail. Started at sunrise. Everything haywire, including cranky pack horse which kept getting off trail. Phoned in at Vernal Falls station. Ordered to hurry down, help catch two auto thieves which broke jail just after breakfast. Assigned to guard Coulterville Road.
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http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SmOmAAAAIAAJ&q=haywire#v=snippet&q=haywire&f=false

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"haywire" (OED B. 2. b. adj. to go haywire: 1929)

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Monthly Journal, Vol. XXXIX, May 1905, Number 5, page 423, by J. W. Reading:

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The engineer who makes of his calling
a burden, who sees nothing but the wrong,
or imposition as he may term it, who fan-
cies perhaps that the whole world has con-
spired against him, who commences to
damn things as soon as he appears upon
the scene of his labors, and continues to
damn everything, including his train
crew, the engine, the officers, and almost
everything, animate and inanimate, while
making the round trip, is working out his
own destiny, and it is but charitable to
say of such a man that he is not well, his
digestion has gone " hay wire " as it were.
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http://archive.org/details/brotherhoodloco00sgoog
Read online: http://archive.org/stream/brotherhoodloco00sgoog#page/n435/mode/1up
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