A sister in Mississippi seeks her brother (1903)

Personal1903

Mrs. Isabell Moore, Booneville, Miss., wants information of her brother, George Campbell. Was near Cotton Wood Point, Mo., when last heard from, two years ago.

Atlanta Constitution (weekly edition), April 13, 1903, p. 12. View the original page at the Library of Congress

In plain English

Mrs. Isabell Moore of Booneville, Mississippi, is looking for her brother, George Campbell. He was last heard from near Cotton Wood Point, Missouri, two years earlier.

Who wrote it, and to whom

Newspaper	Atlanta Constitution (weekly edition), Atlanta, Georgia
Date	April 13, 1903, page 12
Written by	A sister
Addressed to	Anyone with news of George Campbell

Context

This ran in a readers' query column rather than as a paid advertisement. The page's running head shows it is from the weekly edition of the Constitution.

In the Personals Dictionary

Information wanted

Tagged

lost touch written by women

How to cite this ad

“A sister in Mississippi seeks her brother.” Personal advertisement, Atlanta Constitution (weekly edition) (Atlanta, Georgia), April 13, 1903, p. 12. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1903-atlanta-constitution-isabell-moore-seeks-brother.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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