Talk:A Wonderful Bird is the Pelican

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Sources[edit]

Apparently this was written in 1910 (says enWP), though Oxford reference says 1913 (22nd April 1913, in the Nashville Banner, to be exact).

Newspapers.com's earliest reference to "helican" is 1928, but they don't have the Nashville Banner in the archive. Inductiveload—talk/contribs 08:19, 12 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Looking again, I now see some references from 1913 in Tennessee:
  • The Leaf-Chronicle, April 24, p4 (2 days after the original?)
  • The Bristol Herald Courier, June 4, p4
  • Nashville Banner, Aug 7, p5 (this is the same paper as the original in April)
I don't have Newspapers.com access, anyone who does could check this text matches (often damned is darned or d——d) and add the source? Inductiveload—talk/contribs 08:29, 30 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Attribution[edit]

The poem appears to be falsely attributed to Merritt:[1]

The earliest instance of this poem known to QI appeared in “The Tampa Morning Tribune” of Florida on April 2, 1913. The words were ascribed to C. M. Marshton.

References

  1. ↑ Garson O’Toole (June 20, 2020), A Gorgeous Bird is the Pelican, Whose Beak Will Hold More Than His Bellican, <https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/06/20/pelican/>. 

This should be noted in the page somehow. Congpric (talk) 16:49, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Congpric: good find! I have "clipped" the relevant article from Newspapers.com:
These should be imported as scans at some point. Inductiveload—talk/contribs 17:27, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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