OK - I still cannot post a URL link within a discussion.

You will need to add the http and the www

THIS deffinately confirms a common usage date probably prior to 1920.

SEPTEMBER 26, 1920 dated from:
felix.goldenagecartoons.com/ftcclassicfilms.html

SILENT FILM (appears to be the transition period from "Crazy Cat")
998.15 | ADVENTURES OF FELIX THE CAT - FROLICS AT THE CIRCUS (1:38:50:00 - 1:43:54:00)
Final Frame of Film

From BritishPathe - printed on screen

"Felix makes a lasso. He lassos the elephant and pulls him out of the tree through a knothole. Felix then grabs his trunk and hauls him off. The elephant walks along with Felix sitting on his trunk. "Home James!" he commands. End."

britishpathe.com/images/stills/00000000/00036000/00036582/00000300.jpg

SILENT FILM - newsreel feature September 07, 1931 "Here's one way to beat the heat (if it comes!) discovered by a youngster "over there." reads the introductory intertitle.

"Home, James!" Two boys now ski along behind the cart.

britishpathe.com/thumbnails.php?id=24215

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

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