[Ads-l] Dixie (1858)

[Jonathan Lighter]

It's happened to me.  In cases like this, I always remind myself, "If it
feels too good to be true, it almost certainly is."

JL

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 10:01 PM <dave at wilton.net> wrote:

> Damn! You're right. I never rely on the metadata date, but I guess I
> forgot to double-check it this time.
>
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> Pretty impressive, Dave. But I had a terrible feeling that the ad's use of
> "Dixie" sounded as though everybody knew what it meant in 1858.
>
> But another ad on the same page touts a concert by Miss Rundlett to be
> given "Monday Evening, May 4, 1863."
>
> I believe the date of the paper should be "May 2, 1863" rather than "1858."
>
>
> JL
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 3:17 PM <dave at wilton.net> wrote:
>
> > I've found an instance of "Dixie" referring to the American South from
> > 2 May 1858, about a year before it appears in Daniel Emmett's two
> > songs, "Johnny Roach" and "Dixie." I haven't seen anyone else report on
> this one.
> >
> > Classified Ad. Daily Herald (Newburyport, MA), 2 May 1858, 3. NewsBank:
> > American’s Historical Newspapers:
> >
> > "BOUND FOR DIXIE.
> > WELL get a good TRAVELLING TRUNK We are almost giving away Traveling
> > Trunks and have the largest assortment in the city, from $1.37 up to
> > $20—Now is the time to purchase one [a]t your own price, and then you
> > can leave just when you like, Your trunk being in order you can
> > vamoose. Call at TOPPAN & CO’S, 15 State street."
> >
> > Newburyport was a major port in the triangular trade of molasses, rum,
> > and slaves, and many residents would have business ties with and
> > reason to travel to the South.
> >
> > There are references to "Dixey's Land," referring to the children's
> > game, going back to the 1840s, but I don't know of any earlier
> geographic ones.
> >
> > A full write-up is at:
> > https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dixie
> >
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