MDDM Ch. 26 Summary, Notes - Skincare and cigars

[Dave Monroe]

Very quickly ...

--- John Bailey <johnbonbailey at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >260.34 "great Conestoga Waggons"  Conestoga wagon
> >n. (US and Canadian) a large heavy horse-drawn
> >covered wagon used in the 19th C. (19th C., after
> >Conestoga, Pennsylvania, where it was first made)
> 
> Quick question: Conestoga is mentioned several times
> in M&D, and I'm pretty sure that the term 'stogie'
> (as in cigar) is related. Has this been covered 
> here? Just interested.

Thanks to a gracious benefactor, I finally having an
online OED.  And so, of course, I'm in no position to
use it right now.  Summoning forth, then, the trusty
Mierriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (R) ...

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

Main Entry: Con·es·to·ga wagon 
Pronunciation: "kä-n&-'stO-g&-
Function: noun
Etymology: Conestoga, Pa.
Date: 1717
: a broad-wheeled covered wagon drawn usually by six
horses and used especially for transporting freight
across the prairies -- called also Conestoga

And see as well ...

http://www.bartleby.com/65/co/Conestog.html

http://www.dvhi.net/wagonworks/history.html

And then there's ...

Main Entry: sto·gie 
Variant(s): or sto·gy  /'stO-gE/
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural stogies
Etymology: Conestoga, Pa.
Date: 1853
1 : a stout coarse shoe : BROGAN
2 : an inexpensive slender cylindrical cigar; broadly
: CIGAR 

And see here ...

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96nov/wordimp/wordimp.htm

http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/stamps/stamp10a.html

The latter is from "Pittsburgh Leads All in Stogie
Making: This City Has Outstripped State of West
Virginia in Popular Smoking Product: Record of One
Concern," The Pittsburgh Gazette Times, 12 July 1915,
p. 12.  Hope this is of some help, somehow.  Okay,
Mason & Dixon, part deux ...

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