[Ads-l] Antedating of "Wannabe" (Adjective)

[Bill Mullins]

I see numerous references to the Wannabe club in Ft. Wayne IN in 1923.  The club was a social club of the wives of the men who worked at the Dudle Manufacturing Co.  I suppose, short of finding "smoking gun" documentation, it is unanswerable if the name of the club is relevant to this antedating.

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