The lady in black in the drug store (1877)

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PERSONAL—FRIDAY, 5 P. M. WILL LADY IN black in drug store who recognized gents on corner send address to A 16, Tribune office.

Chicago Daily Tribune, May 27, 1877, p. 11. View the original page at the Library of Congress

In plain English

To the woman in black in the drug store at 5 p.m. on Friday, who recognized the men on the corner: please send your address to box A 16 at the Tribune.

Who wrote it, and to whom

Newspaper	Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois
Date	May 27, 1877, page 11
Written by	A man
Addressed to	One woman, seen in a drug store
Where	Replies to the Tribune office

In the Personals Dictionary

Will the lady who Box, care of the office

Tagged

missed connections written by men

How to cite this ad

“The lady in black in the drug store.” Personal advertisement, Chicago Daily Tribune (Chicago, Illinois), May 27, 1877, p. 11. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1877-chicago-tribune-lady-in-black-in-drug-store.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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