[Ads-l] Antedating (?) Joe Soap

[Peter Morris]

"Joe Soap"  
World Wide Words has 1943 as thye earliest citation.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-joe2.htm

Here's one that appears to be from 1934.

http://tinyurl.com/jlwhwuk


Disclaimers about Google dating apply, but it appears right in this case. 
Searching 1934 in the text shows a date for publication.

http://tinyurl.com/hqsuty8

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