[PW] Origin of phrase "Git fer home, Bruno"

[Brian Whatcott]

At 02:17 PM 8/25/2008, you wrote:
>Hello Wombats:
>     A local author is seeking the origin of the phrase "Git FER home,
>Bruno".  So far it seems it may have started in "The Old Home Town", a
>single-panel comic which ran in a number of American newspapers from the
>early 1920s for a number of years (one source says 1921-66, another
>1925-48).  So far an actual use of it in the strip hasn't been pinned
>down.  Someone found a newspaper item from the Decatur Review (Illinois)
>in 1921 which attributes popularity of the phrase in Decatur at that
>time to the strip.
>     If anyone can confirm this, it would be great.  The patron also is
>interested in online sources of examples of the strip (I found a current
>eBay auction for one frame, but nothing else yet).  Or can anyone
>advance another origin of the phrase?       -- Rick Hart
>
>Rick Hart
>Head of Reference
>Forbes Library
>20 West Street                          413-587-1012
>Northampton, MA  01060      fax  413-587-1015
>

This newspaper archive seems to have 27 instances of
"Git Fer Home, Bruno" [sic]

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Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!