"straight goods" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1900, Sandburrs, Alfred Henry Lewis, p. 188 (Google books)",
          "text": "\"[I]n me yout' I was d' star poople of d' Sunday school dey opens long ago at d' Five Points. That's straight goods, see!\""
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          "ref": "1975, Matt Braun, Bloody Hand, page 31",
          "text": "All the same, where did the straight goods leave off and the horseshit begin?",
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          "ref": "2011 September 2, Michael Barbaro, “Bloomberg Is Chastised Over Silence on Deputy”, in New York Times, retrieved 2016-05-01",
          "text": "The News wrote that the mayor “let loyalty get the better of his duty to provide the public with straight goods.”",
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          "text": "Over three decades of writing about transit in the Toronto region has landed me in a stupor, unable to give readers the straight goods on our transit needs.",
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        "The truth; the facts."
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          "ref": "1994 May 10, Guy Gugliotta, “Capital Notebook”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2016-05-01",
          "text": "Is she the straight goods, or is she a gold digger trying to con him?",
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          "ref": "2003 October 31, R. M. Campbell, “Ensemble is sheer artistry, pure and simple”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 2016-05-01",
          "text": "There is no hype about the musicians, no fancy dress, no gimmick to catch the wandering eye. They are simply the straight goods—trenchant musicianship and first-rate ensemble.",
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        "(idiomatic, often preceded by the) Someone or something authentic."
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          "ref": "1900, Sandburrs, Alfred Henry Lewis, p. 188 (Google books)",
          "text": "\"[I]n me yout' I was d' star poople of d' Sunday school dey opens long ago at d' Five Points. That's straight goods, see!\""
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        },
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