“People couldn’t start a conversation if the weather didn’t change”

A common observation is that, without the weather, people would have nothing to talk about. “How would people start a conversation if it were not for the weather?” was cited in 1912.
 
Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard (1868-1930) famously wrote in his “Abe Martin” comic strip in February 1914:
 
“Don’t knock th’ weather. Nine-tenths o’ th’ people couldn’ start a conversation if it didn’ change once in a while.”
     
 
Wikiquote: Kin Hubbard
Frank McKinney Hubbard (1 September 1868 - 26 December 1930) was an American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist.
 
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Don’t knock th’ weather. Nine-tenths o’ th’ people couldn’ start a conversation if it didn’ change once in a while.
. Abe Martin’s Primer : The Collected Writings of Abe Martin and his Brown County, Indiana, Neighbors (1914).
     
1 February 1912, Milford (IN) Mail, pg. ?:
How would people start a conversation if it were not for the weather.
 
18 February 1914, The Public Press (New Albany, IN), pg. 5, cols. 1-2:
Abe Martin’s Philosophy
INDIANAPOLIS NEWS
(...)
Don’t knock th’ weather. Nine-tenths o* th’ people couldn’ start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while.
 
28 March 1914, The Evening Star (Washington, DC),  “Abe Martin Says,” pt. 1, pg. 3, col. 8:
Don’t knock th’ weather. Nine-tenths o’ th’ people couldn’ start a conversation if it didn’ change now an’ then.
   
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Abe Martin’s Primer:
The Collected Writings of Abe Martin and His Brown County, Indiana, Neighbors
By Kin Hubbard
Indianapolis, IN: A. Martin
1914
Pg. ?:
Don’t knock th’ weather. Nine-tenths o’ th’ people couldn’ start a conversation if it didn’ change once in a while.
     
Google Books
The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
By Robert Andrews
New York, NY: Columbia University Press
1989
Pg. 317:
Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while.
Kin (F. McKinney) Hubbard (1868-1930)
American humorist, journalist
 
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“Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while.” - Kin Hubbard
10:06 PM - 28 Feb 2015