Two ladies, last at the Boston Store (1878)

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PERSONAL—TWO LADIES YESTERDAY P. M., Washington-st., last at Boston store. Short lady please address Y 99. Tribune office.

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

In plain English

Two women were walking on Washington Street yesterday afternoon and were last seen at the Boston Store. The shorter of the two is asked to write to box Y 99 at the Tribune.

Who wrote it, and to whom

Newspaper	Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois
Date	March 10, 1878, page 12
Written by	A man
Addressed to	One woman, seen shopping
Where	Replies to the Tribune office

Context

The Boston Store was a Chicago department store. This ran in the same column as the Bouquet notice and the ad from the lady of 40.

In the Personals Dictionary

Box, care of the office

Tagged

missed connections written by men

How to cite this ad

“Two ladies, last at the Boston Store.” 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-two-ladies-boston-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. 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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