^ I had run across it before (turned up in a Pynchon novel) but I had to Google it as a memory-refresher. From what I recall, it was in use during the 1940s, probably (my speculation, here) filtered through a strong Noo Yawk/Joisey accent.
Ah, here we go:
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... the archetypal newsboy’s cry: "Wuxtry! Wuxtry! [Extra! Extra!] Read all about it!" The spelling was commonly used in the 1940s: Jack Kirby’s Boy Commandos, or The Newsboy Legion; a painting by Albert Abramovitz (at the Harn Museum of Art); and articles in Time and Newsweek, among others.
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(Quoted from here)