The Old Barometer Story (OBS) Redux

Some blog followers might be interested in a recent post “The Old Barometer Story (OBS) Redux” [Hake (2013)]. The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: John Denker of the PhysLrnR list called attention to “Angels on a Pin: A Modern Parable” [Calandra (1968)] at http://bit.ly/10KKI4h and wrote: “There's a lot more that could be said about this story.”

And there's also a lot that's already been said about the “Old Barometer Story” (OBS). See e.g.:
(1) the Wikipedia Entry on “The Barometer Question” at http://bit.ly/11TY6Ub;
and (in approximate chronological order):

(2) “The Barometer Fable” [Simanek (undated)] at http://bit.ly/Va0VsW;

(3) “a pointless story” [Goldenberg (1998)] at http://bit.ly/14jauf4;

(4) “The Old Barometer Story (was Problem Solving in Physics)” [Hake (2000)] at http://bit.ly/UZ7r7J;

(5) “Re: The Old Barometer Story” [Hubisz (2000) at http://bit.ly/10UFqEw;

(6) “Problem Solving in Physics” Beck (2000) at http://bit.ly/Tyuidt;

(7) “The Old Barometer Story (was Tower height joke)” [Hake (2007a)] at http://bit.ly/Y1HBkd;

(8) “The Old Barometer Story - Erratum & Addendum” [Hake (2007b)] at http://bit.ly/W1FI7q;

(9) “Re: Free Versus Pedantic Thinking” Hake (2008a)] at http://bit.ly/Vlvr8J;

(10) “Free Versus Pedantic Thinking” [Chandy (2008)] at http://bit.ly/10UHyw6;

(11) “Re: Free Versus Pedantic Thinking” [Raimi (2008)] at http://bit.ly/VlVmNy;

(12) “Re: Developing for creativity” [Hake (2008b)] at http://bit.ly/SDUAcw;

(13) “The Barometer Problem” [B. and D. Mikkelson (2011)] at http://bit.ly/14e674Z;

(14) “The myth of Niels Bohr and the barometer question” [“Johann” (2011)] at http://bit.ly/149Q6Os.

Note that Ralph Raimi (2008) at http://bit.ly/VlVmNy states that he heard the OBS in 1943, 15 years before the publication of the 1958 Reader's Digest version of the OBS referenced by B. and D. Mikkelson (2011)] at http://bit.ly/14e674Z as the earliest version of the OBS of which they were aware. Does anyone have a pre-1958 reference to the OBS?
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
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Hake, R.R. 2013. “The Old Barometer Story (OBS) Redux,” online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/Ur7zOm. Post of 25 Jan 2013 16:12:22-0800 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists.