From the English-language personals of a Yiddish daily.
Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.
INTELLIGENT YOUNG LADY, 25 years of age, brunette, taller than medium height, considered attractive, both in personality and appearance, refined and musical, would like to make the acquaintance of a refined young gentleman, well established, not over thirty-five, American or well Americanized, from New York or vicinity. Write Tageblatt Box 615.
| Newspaper | Jewish Daily News (Yidishes Tageblatt), New York, New York |
|---|---|
| Date | November 7, 1926, page 7 |
| Written by | A woman, 25 |
| Addressed to | Established men up to 35, New York area |
| Where | Replies to a Tageblatt box |
The Tageblatt was a Yiddish daily that also printed an English-language section. The request for a man who is American or well Americanized reflects a generation of immigrant families in which the children had grown up in New York.
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. The machine-read text dropped the age; it is restored from the page image. 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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