Not a romance: a man in Little Rock needs to reach a woman by her maiden name, and won't say why.
Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.
WILL the young lady who before marriage bore the name of Ella Mae Bowers please communicate at once with the undersigned on matter of grave importance. Louis W. Denkler, Care Southern Cotton Oil Co., Little Rock, Ark. Box 586.
| Newspaper | Birmingham Age-Herald, Birmingham, Alabama |
|---|---|
| Date | November 25, 1920, page 14 |
| Written by | A man, Louis W. Denkler |
| Addressed to | One woman, by her maiden name |
| Where | Replies to a Little Rock company address |
Personal columns carried more than courtship. Estates, debts and family news all needed a way to reach people who had moved or changed their names, and a notice like this was often the only way to find them. The notice does not say what the grave matter was.
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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