[Ads-l] Antedating (?) Joe Soap
Peter Morris
peter_morris_1 at BLUEYONDER.CO.UK
Sun Sep 4 15:09:35 UTC 2016
"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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