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Arizona Republican · February 25, 1921

A healthy widower with a comfortable home

A widower with a home seeks a healthy lady of 30 to 35.

Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.


Personals1921

HEALTHY widower with comfortable home, wishes to correspond with unincumbered, healthy christian lady, 30 to 35 years, object matrimony. Box 33T, Republican. dn

Arizona Republican, February 25, 1921, Section Two, p. 7. View the original page at the Library of Congress

In plain English

A healthy widower with a comfortable home would like to write to a healthy Christian woman of 30 to 35 with no family ties, with marriage in mind. Replies go to Box 33T at the Republican.

Who wrote it, and to whom

NewspaperArizona Republican, Phoenix, Arizona
DateFebruary 25, 1921, page 7 of Section Two
Written byA widower
Addressed toUnattached Christian women of 30 to 35
WhereReplies to Box 33T, the Republican

Context

February 25, 1921, was a Friday. Unincumbered, a variant spelling of unencumbered, meant free of ties, often without children. It ran on the same page as an elderly lady with property and a refined bachelor of 45, who also asked for a healthy lady. The closing dn is the paper’s insertion code. For where people in Phoenix and Tucson post personal ads now, see our guide to personal ads in Phoenix and Tucson.

In the Personals Dictionary

Object matrimonyCorrespondentBox, care of the officeInsertion codes (1t, 3t)Unencumbered

Tagged

matrimonywritten by menwidows and widowers

How to cite this ad

“A healthy widower with a comfortable home.” Personal advertisement, Arizona Republican (Phoenix, Arizona), February 25, 1921, Section Two, p. 7. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1921-arizona-republican-healthy-widower-comfortable-home.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.

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