A front-page notice from a woman who signs her own name, gives an address, and asks one man to visit.
Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.
RETURNED TO THE OLD PLACE, 65 (NEW NO. 118).—Would Charley please call and oblige? CARRIE WHITE.
| Newspaper | New York Herald, New York, New York |
|---|---|
| Date | October 1, 1868, image 1 of the scanned issue (no printed page number) |
| Written by | A woman, Carrie White |
| Addressed to | One man, Charley |
| Where | In person at her address |
The two numbers suggest the building had been given a new street number, which would make the old place and number 118 the same address. The notice is written for a reader who already knows the street, and who Charley was, and why she left and came back, is left for him to know.
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 opening parenthesis is barely visible, and the last digit of 118 may be a 2. 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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