[Ads-l] Ghost Town

[Dan Goncharoff]

I am very confused. O'Dwyer was mayor 1946-50.

On Sun, May 3, 2020, 2:47 PM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Many urban areas are being described as "ghost towns" during the
> pandemic.  OED has 1931.
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> Kansas Farmer and Mail and Breeze (Topeka, Kansas) 09 Aug 1895 p 3, col 1
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> "This important adjunct of a free people was situated out on the prairie,
> at the site of a deserted village popularly called Ghost Town."
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> The Centralia Enterprise and Tribune (Centralia, Wisconsin) 28 Oct 1899,
> Sat p 12 col 2
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> "Sid Grossman reports that New York was like a ghost town last Tuesday, as
> result of Mayor O'Dwyer's order halting all non-essential business
> operations to conserve fuel."
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