[Ads-l] shopping spree

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Here is an instance of "shopping spree" a few years earlier in New York City,

Date: December 05, 1863
Newspaper: The New York Ledger
Newspaper Location: New York, New York
Article: A Morning at Juniper's
Quote Page 4, Column 5
Database: Newspapers.com
Database: British Newspaper Archive
Database: GenealogyBank

[Begin excerpt]
I don’t pretend to comprehend the talismanic spell; but I know that at
other stores than Juniper's I see those very women, snub and brow beat
clerks, and find fault with prices, and put on astounding airs
generally, as women will when let out on a shopping spree. - I see
none of it at Juniper's.
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 10:16 AM Jonathan Lighter
<00001aad181a2549-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
>
> 1869 _Cincinnati Enquirer_ (Nov. 19) 8 [Newspapers.com]: A general shopping
> spree for the ladies.
>
> 1880 _Daily Graphic_ (NYC) (Dec. 22) 383 [Newspapers.com]: She was out
> yesterday on the fashionable and legalized Christmas shopping spree.
>
> JL
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