Early "bullshit"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Here is another instance in 1914 that I do not see in the ADS archives or HDAS.

Year: 1914
Title: Conditions in the Copper Mines of Michigan: Hearings Before a
Subcommittee of the Committee on Mines and Mining, House of
Representatives, Sixty-Third Congress, Second Session
Hearings held February 16-21, 1914
Quote Page 942

http://books.google.com/books?id=xUhJAAAAYAAJ&q=bull#v=snippet&

[Begin excerpt]
He kept me in the room, told me. "I am going to bust your head because
you put some bull shit in the papers." "What do you mean by that?"
[End excerpt]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Bonnie Taylor-Blake
<b.taylorblake at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Randy Alexander
> <strangeguitars at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Does Scholtz's have an ad in the next issue? (Maybe with a correction or
>> apology?)
>
> The same ad (without the "Bull Shit") had appeared on February 28,
> then the altered ad appeared on March 2.  The ad returned to its
> February 28 form in issues printed on March 3 and March 5 through
> March 8.  I don't see that the newspaper ever issued a correction or
> apology or admitted an error with regard to the March 2 printing, so
> how "Bull Shit" ended up there remains a mystery.  In any event, it
> doesn't seem to have deterred Scholtz from advertising in the paper:
> new ads continued to appear through the spring.
>
> The complete text of the line that had been obscured by the offending
> words read:  "the season's choicest flowers and plants can always be
> found."
>
> -- Bonnie
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