A coded note to Rome, with a word no one else could read.
Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.
ROME none. Very anxious. Please soon as convenient; eamcosh as usual. Did you write? Only here very short time. Francklyn more than ever.
| Newspaper | Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colorado |
|---|---|
| Date | June 7, 1898, page 9 |
| Written by | Signed, apparently, Francklyn |
| Addressed to | One person, Rome |
June 7, 1898, was a Tuesday. Eamcosh is printed that way, and it isn’t a word: it reads like a private code between the two. The note ran in the same column as a search for the gentleman who smiled going home from Chutes Park. Notes like this used the personal column as a message board, as H. did for L. in Chicago in 1877. For where people in Denver post personal ads now, see our guide to personal ads in Denver.
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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