A young businessman seeks a lady of some means (1881)

Personal1881

PERSONAL—A YOUNG MAN WITH a good business wishes to form the acquaintance of some lady with some means; object matrimony. Please address, in confidence, B 85, Tribune office.

Chicago Daily Tribune, June 5, 1881, p. 15. View the original page at the Library of Congress

In plain English

A young man with a successful business wants to meet a woman who has some money of her own, to marry. Replies are kept private.

Who wrote it, and to whom

Newspaper	Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois
Date	June 5, 1881, page 15
Written by	A young man in business
Addressed to	Women of some means
Where	Replies to the Tribune office

In the Personals Dictionary

Object matrimony Wishes to form the acquaintance of Of means In confidence Box, care of the office

Tagged

matrimony written by men

How to cite this ad

“A young businessman seeks a lady of some means.” Personal advertisement, Chicago Daily Tribune (Chicago, Illinois), June 5, 1881, p. 15. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1881-chicago-tribune-young-man-good-business.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. The box number is blurred in the scan and may read B 65 rather than B 85. 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.

← 1880: Balcony, section C, Saturday afternoon 1882: A young man of moral habits wants a correspondent →

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