[Ads-l] "Jazzum" ("jassim," 1908) in terms of "a dose"?

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake]

Nothing really remarkable here (this is not the earliest "jazzum," for
example), but a question.

Does this 1908 text, which seems to point to the basketball team,
represent the first time we've seen "jazzum" (in this case, "jassim")
used in a quasi-medicinal sense, here as "a dose [to be] taken"?

(I mention this use because at least by 1913 West Coast sportswriters
sometimes referred to "jazz" in the same therapeutic or restorative
way. For example, with "dose" specifically, see
https://www.newspapers.com/article/oakland-enquirer/142760252/.)

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The Y.M.C.A. state sec. J.T. Banks spent Friday with members of our
organizatoin [sic]. A little lift is often appreciated and a dose of
"jassim" always taken. ["Collge [sic] Notes," The Warrenton (Missouri)
Banner, 6 November 1908, p. 1;
https://www.newspapers.com/article/warrenton-banner-jassim-jazzum-jasm/167416959/.
The column deals with news out of the now-defunct Central Wesleyan
College.]

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-- Bonnie

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