[Ads-l] antedating "Joe Blow"

[Jonathan Lighter]

OED: 1941

All from Newspapers. com.

1908-1916 refer to a recurring character (a bookmaker) in the syndicated
feature, "The Manicure Lady," by William F. Kirk.

[1908 _New York Evening Journal_ (Feb, 27) 3: Joe Blow is certainly a
different man now.

[1910 _El Paso Morning Times_ (May 8) 5: Joe Blow was in here today.

[1916 Columbia [S.C.] Record_ (Feb. 3)  9: He wouldn't have gave you no tip
like Joe Blow.]

1920 _Kansas City Post_ (Jan. 16) 11 [cartoon]: "Mr. Joe Blow!" "That's the
'steenth time they've paged that guy.

1926 _Evening Courier_ (Camden, N.J.) (Aug. 2)  10: This colyum has been
besieged with requests to issue some facts about Joe Blow, our wandering
correspondent....Joe Blow's real name is not Joe Blow,

1935 _Sutherland [Neb.] Courier_ (Feb. 7) 2: Walk-A-Show Orchestra, Joe
Blow.

1935  _Springfield [Mass.] Daily News_ (March 27) 1: Inscribing the name
"Joe Blow" on the ticket.

1937 _DeKalb Daily Chronicle_  (Nov. 30) 9: We'll call the fellow Joe Blow,
because we doubt very much if anyone by that name lives in DeKalb.

JL
-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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