[Ads-l] 23 skidoo, 1905, slight antedating?

[Stephen Goranson]

23 was considered, by some, unlucky. It was sometimes followed by skidoo, as another thought-unlucky number, 13, was sometimes followed by hoodoo.

Dec. 25, 1905, Mon., 4/5
Hutchinson [KS] Daily News [1]

The Cornishman's Lament

O, me and Nicolas the Russ,
Our fightin' days are done.
It's 23, skidoo with us,
Time has us on the run....

--Kansas City Times

And compare Nov 6, 1905, also newspapers,com, also a poem about Nicolas II [there aka 23] in St. Louis Dispatch 6/3:

So, 23, vamoose, skidoo.

SGoranson

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