[Ads-l] "dollars to doughnuts" 1871
Stephen Goranson
goranson at DUKE.EDU
Wed Aug 17 10:50:31 UTC 2016
Maybe an antedating:
"We will bet Dollars to Doughnuts that we are offering goods at lower prices than any house in Portland."
Portland [Maine] Daily Press, Oct. 18, 1871, p. 3, col. 3 [Am. Hist. News.].
Stephen Goranson
http://people.duke.edu/~goranson/
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