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Arizona Republican · January 15, 1922

A refined widow, musically inclined and alone

Well educated, musical, alone, and promising discretion.

Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.


Personals1922

WELL educated and refined widow musically inclined and alone, desires the companionship of refined gentleman of means; object matrimony. All replies will be treated in a strictly confidential manner. Address Box 2P, Republican. bl

Arizona Republican, January 15, 1922, Section Two, p. 7. View the original page at the Library of Congress

In plain English

A well-educated, cultured widow who loves music and lives alone would like the company of a cultured man with money, with marriage in mind. All replies will be kept private. Replies go to Box 2P at the Republican.

Who wrote it, and to whom

NewspaperArizona Republican, Phoenix, Arizona
DateJanuary 15, 1922, page 7 of Section Two
Written byA widow
Addressed toRefined men of means
WhereReplies to Box 2P, the Republican

Context

January 15, 1922, was a Sunday. She uses refined twice, once for herself and once for the man she wants, and promises that replies will be kept strictly confidential. The mark after means is faint on the scan; it is most likely a semicolon. The closing bl 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

RefinedOf meansObject matrimonyIn confidenceBox, care of the officeInsertion codes (1t, 3t)

Tagged

matrimonywritten by womenwidows and widowers

How to cite this ad

“A refined widow, musically inclined and alone.” Personal advertisement, Arizona Republican (Phoenix, Arizona), January 15, 1922, Section Two, p. 7. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1922-arizona-republican-refined-widow-musically-inclined.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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