Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1894 — The New Word “Hobo." [ARTICLE]

The New Word “Hobo."

Phtladelphia Press. The new word for tramps, “hobos,” is a corruption of “hoe-boys,” a phrase used in the South for “the peripatetic agricultural laborers” employed in the South during thq season when cotton is growing.