A young man of moral habits wants a correspondent (1882)

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WANTED—A young man of moral habits wishes a young lady correspondent. Object matrimony. Address, S. Martin, Silver City, New Mexico.

Sedalia Weekly Bazoo, October 17, 1882, p. 2. View the original page at the Library of Congress

In plain English

A young man who says he lives a clean, decent life wants a young woman to write to, with marriage as the goal.

Who wrote it, and to whom

Newspaper	Sedalia Weekly Bazoo, Sedalia, Missouri
Date	October 17, 1882, page 2
Written by	A young man
Addressed to	Young women
Where	Replies by mail to Silver City, New Mexico

Context

Silver City was a young mining town in the New Mexico Territory when this ran. Placing the ad in a Missouri paper reached a larger pool of readers than a frontier town could offer.

In the Personals Dictionary

Object matrimony Correspondent

Tagged

correspondence matrimony written by men

How to cite this ad

“A young man of moral habits wants a correspondent.” Personal advertisement, Sedalia Weekly Bazoo (Sedalia, Missouri), October 17, 1882, p. 2. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1882-sedalia-bazoo-young-man-moral-habits.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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