Balcony, section C, Saturday afternoon (1880)

Personal1880

PERSONAL—BALCONY, SEC. C, SATURDAY afternoon, Haverly's. If agreeable, will lady please communicate with gentleman on right? Address E 71, Tribune office.

Chicago Daily Tribune, February 15, 1880, p. 12. View the original page at the Library of Congress

In plain English

To the woman in the balcony, section C, at Haverly's Theatre on Saturday afternoon: if you're willing, please write to the man who was sitting on your right.

Who wrote it, and to whom

Newspaper	Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois
Date	February 15, 1880, page 12
Written by	A man
Addressed to	One woman, seen at the theater
Where	Replies to the Tribune office

Context

Haverly's was a Chicago theater. The ad follows the classic form of a missed connection: the place, the seat, the time, and a polite if agreeable.

In the Personals Dictionary

Communicate with Box, care of the office

Tagged

missed connections theater written by men

How to cite this ad

“Balcony, section C, Saturday afternoon.” Personal advertisement, Chicago Daily Tribune (Chicago, Illinois), February 15, 1880, p. 12. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1880-chicago-tribune-balcony-section-c-haverlys.html.

Public domain in the United States: published before 1931.

Transcribed from the page image and checked against the original; spelling and punctuation are as printed, and words broken across lines are rejoined. Capital letters are also as printed: papers set the first line of each ad in capitals, so the capitals stop wherever that line ended, sometimes in the middle of a word.

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