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Salt Lake Tribune · October 19, 1908

A widow lady, stranger in the city

New in town, educated, with some money, and not interested in time-wasters.

Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.


Personal1908

A WIDOW LADY, STRANGER IN city, well educated, some means, would like to meet a gentleman not over 45; object matrimony; no triflers need answer. Address E-50, Tribune.

Salt Lake Tribune, October 19, 1908, p. 8. View the original page at the Library of Congress

In plain English

A widow who has recently arrived in Salt Lake City, well educated and with some money, would like to meet a man no older than 45, with marriage in mind. Serious replies only.

Who wrote it, and to whom

NewspaperSalt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah
DateOctober 19, 1908, page 8
Written byA widow
Addressed toMen up to 45
WhereReplies to the Tribune office

Context

Stranger in city tells readers she had only recently arrived, and without friends or family nearby, the personal column was one of the few ways to meet anyone.

In the Personals Dictionary

Of meansObject matrimonyNo triflersBox, care of the office

Tagged

matrimonywidows and widowerswritten by women

How to cite this ad

“A widow lady, stranger in the city.” Personal advertisement, Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, Utah), October 19, 1908, p. 8. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1908-salt-lake-tribune-widow-stranger-in-city.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 Library of Congress files this page under October 16, 1908, but the page itself is headed Monday, October 19, 1908; the printed date is used here. 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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