Thirty, industrious, and asking for photographs.
Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.
An industrious Scotchman, aged 30 years, wants to correspond with a frugal and industrious lady of 25 or 30 years, with a view to matrimony. Must exchange photographs. Address SCOTCHMAN, care of ENTERPRISE.
| Newspaper | Arizona Weekly Enterprise, Florence, Arizona |
|---|---|
| Date | January 4, 1890, page 4 |
| Written by | A Scottish man, 30 |
| Addressed to | Thrifty, hardworking women of 25 to 30 |
| Where | Replies to Scotchman, care of the Enterprise |
January 4, 1890, was a Saturday. The ad ran under the heading Matrimonial, and again on January 11 and 18. On January 25, the Mohave County Miner reprinted it as news, introduced as “A Pinal county man advertises for a wife as follows,” and misprinted photographs as potographs. The Enterprise was published in Florence, the seat of Pinal County. For where people in Phoenix and Tucson post personal ads now, see our guide to personal ads in Phoenix and Tucson.
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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