Off the train at Ash Fork, then the branch line to Phoenix.
Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.
WILL THE LADY wearing black skirt and white waist who got off Pullman Santa Fe train No. 9 at Ashfork Sept. 3rd and took branch train to Phoenix kindly send her name and address to (X) this paper. Interested party would like to know as have good news. bg
| Newspaper | Arizona Republican, Phoenix, Arizona |
|---|---|
| Date | September 11, 1914, image 11 of the scanned issue |
| Written by | Unsigned, an interested party |
| Addressed to | A woman who got off train No. 9 at Ash Fork |
| Where | Replies to X, care of the Republican |
September 11, 1914, was a Friday, and the ad ran again on September 12, 13, and 14. Ash Fork, which the ad spells Ashfork, was where the branch line to Prescott and Phoenix met the Santa Fe’s main line; the branch had reached Phoenix in 1895. A waist was a blouse. Unlike most notices that open with “Will the lady,” this one may not be about romance: the writer says only that an interested party has good news. The closing bg is the paper’s insertion code, used to track the ad. For where people in Phoenix and Tucson post missed connections now, see our guide to personal ads in Phoenix and Tucson.
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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