Earliest known publication was in "50 Years Ago Next Sunday...", Heppner Gazette Times, June 11, 1953, page 1. This newspaper was published without a copyright notice and does not appear in the Catalog of Copyright Entries
Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
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