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San Diego Union and Daily Bee · October 21, 1917

A widow with a cozy home, but lonely

Educated, happy, a cozy home, and lonely.

Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.


Personals1917

WIDOW — Middle-aged, educated, happy disposition, cozy home, but lonely. wants companionship of successful gentleman. Q-58, Union.

San Diego Union and Daily Bee, October 21, 1917, p. 43. View the original page at the California Digital Newspaper Collection

In plain English

A middle-aged, educated widow with a happy disposition and a comfortable home, who is lonely, wants the company of a successful man. Replies go to Q-58 at the Union.

Who wrote it, and to whom

NewspaperSan Diego Union and Daily Bee, San Diego, California
DateOctober 21, 1917, page 43
Written byA middle-aged widow
Addressed toSuccessful men
WhereReplies to Q-58, the Union

Context

October 21, 1917, was a Sunday. She lists what she has, an education, a happy disposition, and a cozy home, and then the reason for the ad: but lonely. She asks for companionship, not marriage. Nine years earlier, the same paper carried an amiable and domestic widow who wanted love and companionship. For where people in San Diego post personal ads now, see our guide to personal ads in San Diego.

In the Personals Dictionary

Box, care of the office

Tagged

widows and widowerswritten by women

How to cite this ad

“A widow with a cozy home, but lonely.” Personal advertisement, San Diego Union and Daily Bee (San Diego, California), October 21, 1917, p. 43. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1917-san-diego-union-widow-cozy-home-but-lonely.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.

← 1916: An American gentleman, 40, with a few thousand dollars1919: A widower of 45 wishes the acquaintance of a lady →

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