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To: Karen Lawrence who started this subject	8/18/2001 9:17:53 PM
From: Quahog	Read Replies (1) of 155

Take your pick: Hobo was first attested in an 1889 newspaper published in Washington State. Back then, the word was capitalized and seemed to be the name hobos used to describe themselves. Within ten years, the word had migrated East and stories about hoboes were common in New York newspapers. The exact origin of hobo is about as tough to pin down as the vagabonds themselves. William Pinkerton (of the Pinkerton Detective Agency) thought the word came from the greeting "Ho, beau!", a call such travelers used to greet one another. A similar theory suggests that the word is a shortened version of "Ho, boy!" a greeting used by railroad mail handlers in the Northwest during the 1880s. Others have proposed that the hobo was named after Hoboken, New Jersey, but it seems unlikely that the name of an Eastern city would have given rise to a word that first appeared in print on the West Coast. m-w.com Where did the word "hobo" come from? Frank Turner of Van Buren shares the following: "The word "hobo" came as a result of those who rode from town to town in freight cars. Originally there were many cottonfields in the area. In order to get a job when they arrived at a new town, hoboes had to carry their own hoe." rivervalleyweb.com Hoboes originally were migrant workers who rode from place to place on trains. The word "hobo" may have come from "Ho, boy!" a call used by railway mail handlers in the American Northwest during the late 1880s. angelfire.com

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