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Omaha Daily Bee · November 17, 1903

Will the tall gentleman who sat opposite

A missed connection apparently written by a woman, about a man on the Park Avenue car.

Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.


Personal1903

WILL the tall gentleman who sat opposite brunette young lady on Park avenue car Saturday about four p. m. address U. 56, care Bee.

Omaha Daily Bee, November 17, 1903, p. 8. View the original page at the Library of Congress

In plain English

The tall man who sat across from a brunette young woman on the Park Avenue streetcar on Saturday around 4 p.m. is asked to write to a box at the Bee. The notice was apparently placed by the brunette herself.

Who wrote it, and to whom

NewspaperOmaha Daily Bee, Omaha, Nebraska
DateNovember 17, 1903, page 8
Written byApparently the young woman herself
Addressed toOne man, seen on a streetcar
WhereReplies to the Bee office

Context

Most missed connections in the papers were written by men. This one apparently reverses it, and a year later the same paper carried a nearly mirror-image notice written by a man on the Farnam car.

In the Personals Dictionary

Will the lady whoBox, care of the office

Tagged

missed connectionswritten by women

How to cite this ad

“Will the tall gentleman who sat opposite.” Personal advertisement, Omaha Daily Bee (Omaha, Nebraska), November 17, 1903, p. 8. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1903-omaha-bee-tall-gentleman-park-avenue-car.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. The trailing printer's code at the end of the ad is omitted. 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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