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Buffalo Evening News · July 25, 1903

A gentleman wants a lady, 30 to 50

Refined, educated, and specific about age.

Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.


Personal1903

GENTLEMAN, middle-age, refined, educated, desires the acquaintance of lady, 30 to 50; object, matrimony. Address Faithful, News office.

Buffalo Evening News, July 25, 1903, p. 20. View the original page at NYS Historic Newspapers

In plain English

A refined, educated, middle-aged man would like to meet a woman between 30 and 50, with marriage in mind. Replies go to Faithful at the News office.

Who wrote it, and to whom

NewspaperBuffalo Evening News, Buffalo, New York
DateJuly 25, 1903, page 20
Written byA middle-aged man, signing Faithful
Addressed toWomen 30 to 50
WhereReplies to Faithful, the News office

Context

He gives a twenty-year range and signs himself Faithful. The same column carried a lonesome widow looking for correspondence and a note to L. R. For where people in Upstate New York post personal ads now, see our guide to personal ads in Upstate New York.

In the Personals Dictionary

RefinedObject matrimony

Tagged

matrimonywritten by men

How to cite this ad

“A gentleman wants a lady, 30 to 50.” Personal advertisement, Buffalo Evening News (Buffalo, New York), July 25, 1903, p. 20. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1903-buffalo-evening-news-gentleman-lady-30-to-50.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 word of each ad in capitals.

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