A wartime housemate notice, with a commute, a lawyer, and one firm requirement: must love country.
Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.
YOUNG WOMAN ATTORNEY will share modern cottage, Lake Jackson, Va., with congenial couple, girls or service wife; furn. transp. D. C. daily; must love country; ref.; write full part. Box, 450-K, Star.
| Newspaper | Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
|---|---|
| Date | June 11, 1944, page D-3 |
| Written by | A woman, an attorney |
| Addressed to | A couple, young women, or a service wife |
| Where | Replies to a Star box |
Service wife meant a woman whose husband was away in the armed forces, a common situation in 1944. Women were still a small minority of lawyers, and she led with her profession. 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. The punctuation after daily, country and ref. could be read as colons or semicolons in the scan, 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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