Will Bouquet grant acquaintance? (1878)

Personal1878

PERSONAL—INDIANA-AV. CAR TO TWENTY-third-st., 5:30 p. m. yesterday: will "Bouquet" (second occasion) grant acquaintance? Address "Opposite," Z 55, Tribune office.

Chicago Daily Tribune, March 10, 1878, p. 12. View the original page at the Library of Congress

In plain English

To the woman he calls Bouquet, on the Indiana Avenue car to Twenty-Third Street at 5:30 yesterday afternoon: would she agree to meet? The note (second occasion) suggests either that they had crossed paths before or that this is his second notice to her. He signs himself Opposite.

Who wrote it, and to whom

Newspaper	Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois
Date	March 10, 1878, page 12
Written by	A man, writing as Opposite
Addressed to	One woman, called Bouquet
Where	Replies to the Tribune office

Context

Opposite presumably sat across from her, and Bouquet presumably carried one. Second occasion hints that this was not the first time, whether of seeing her or of writing to her. This ran in the same column as the ad from the lady of 40.

In the Personals Dictionary

Grant acquaintance Box, care of the office

Tagged

missed connections coded messages written by men

How to cite this ad

“Will Bouquet grant acquaintance?.” Personal advertisement, Chicago Daily Tribune (Chicago, Illinois), March 10, 1878, p. 12. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1878-chicago-tribune-bouquet-indiana-avenue-car.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. The box number is taken from the page image; the newspaper's machine-read text has it wrong. 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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