Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1910 — Origin of the Saying. [ARTICLE]

Origin of the Saying.

She was an enormous young woman. "Have you anybody here,” she asked, “as tall as I am?” "Yes, I guess so,” answered the proprietor of the dime museum. “Well, I’m from Missouri,” rejoined Ella Ewing, the giantess; "you’ll have to show me.” So they put her inside and showed her, along with the other freaks. —Chicago Tribune.