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Word: yer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...deal wi' me as severely as ye like," retorted the Scot, "put that in yer pipe and smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: May 11, 1931 | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...failure to appear, wrecked vengeance on a Massachusetts regiment on its way through their city. Harper's Weekly printed a full-page series of cartoons showing a grotesquely night-capped and bewhiskered Lincoln sitting up in bed while a lackey shouts: "The Blood tubs are after yer!" Lincoln replies, "Run-no-nev-a-r-r let 'em shoo-o-t." Finally, attired in his Scotch cap and long military cape (misconstrued as a disguise) "Abe" retreats over the back fences. He boards a train which takes him to the White House, where he is presented to President Buchanan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Old Abr'm | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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