1893 People’s Voice (Wellington, KS) 1 Dec. 6/5: ‘I could buy them in Ireland for sixpence.’ ‘Then why didn’t you stay in that blessed country?’ ‘Bejazus, you couldn’t get the sixpence’.at bejazus!, excl.
1893 People’s Voice (Wellington, KS) 14 Apr. 4/2: It’s a cold day when the professional calamity belly-acher cannot find something to make himself miserable over.at belly-acher (n.) under bellyache, v.
1893 People’s Voice (Wellington, KS) 14 Apr. 4/2: It’s a cold day when the professional calamity belly-acher cannot find something to make himself miserable over.at bellyacher (n.) under bellyache, n.
1898 People’s Voice (Wellington, KS) 18 Aug. 8/2: Waggoner [...] got tangled up in trying to cross all of those catawampus bridges.at catawampus, adj.