A Depression-era notice looking not for romance but for a study partner.
Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.
WISH TO HEAR FROM ADVANCED GREGG student or stenographer employed who would like to study shorthand evenings Address Box 67-A. Star office.
| Newspaper | Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
|---|---|
| Date | May 15, 1932, page 8 |
| Written by | Not stated |
| Addressed to | Advanced shorthand students or working stenographers |
| Where | Replies to a Star box |
Gregg shorthand was the dominant system taught to office workers in the United States, and good shorthand was a route to steady clerical work in 1932, in the depths of the Depression. In the Evening Star issues from the 1930s and 1940s checked for this archive, the personal column carried far more notices about lodging, work and services than about courtship, and the personal ads that remained were often about finding company of any kind.
Believed to be in the public domain: this newspaper did not renew copyright for these years, though the Library of Congress notes that newspapers of this period may contain some third-party material still under copyright.
Transcribed from the page image and checked against the original; spelling and punctuation are as printed, and words broken across lines are rejoined. No punctuation follows evenings in the original, and the trailing printer's mark is omitted. 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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