A widower of 45 wishes the acquaintance of a lady (1919)

Personal1919

WIDOWER of 45 wishes acquaintance of lady with view to matrimony. Box 210 Tribune.

Great Falls Daily Tribune, December 4, 1919, p. 14. View the original page at the Library of Congress

In plain English

A 45-year-old widower wants to meet a woman, with marriage in mind.

Who wrote it, and to whom

Newspaper	Great Falls Daily Tribune, Great Falls, Montana
Date	December 4, 1919, page 14
Written by	A widower, 45
Addressed to	Women
Where	Replies to a Tribune box

Context

By 1919 the long, elaborate ads of the nineteenth century had often shrunk to a single line. Classified space was sold by the word or the line, and this writer spent as little of it as he could.

In the Personals Dictionary

With a view to matrimony Wishes to form the acquaintance of Box, care of the office

Tagged

matrimony widows and widowers written by men

How to cite this ad

“A widower of 45 wishes the acquaintance of a lady.” Personal advertisement, Great Falls Daily Tribune (Great Falls, Montana), December 4, 1919, p. 14. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1919-great-falls-tribune-widower-of-45.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 dollars 1920: A matter of grave importance for Ella Mae Bowers →

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