A day, a time, and a place both of them already knew.
Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.
CLEO: Meet brother Wednesday, 2 o’clock; usual place. Karl.
| Newspaper | Buffalo Evening News, Buffalo, New York |
|---|---|
| Date | December 10, 1897, page 10 |
| Written by | Karl |
| Addressed to | Cleo |
| Where | Their usual place, Wednesday at 2 o’clock |
It may be a family message or a code between two people; the notice doesn’t say, and “usual place” means only the two of them knew where. It ran among the paper’s two-cents-a-word ads, beside a dancing academy and a sewing-machine sale, and the same column carried another notice about a brother, signed only “I.” It also carried a respectable widow of 25 looking for a middle-aged gentleman. For where people in Upstate New York post personal ads now, see our guide to personal ads in Upstate New York.
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 word of each ad in capitals.
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