She wants a good-looking fellow without any very bad faults, and her savings are ready for setting up house.
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Advertiser is a rather stout young woman, aged 22, wants to marry a good looking fellow, with not any very bad faults, have $200 saved to help to start housekeeping with. Address, Box 1024, Matrimonial Journal Office. Toronto.
| Newspaper | The Anglo-American Matrimonial Journal, Toronto |
|---|---|
| Date | December 1886 (Vol. 1, No. 1), page 3 |
| Section | Lower class (feminine), at one cent a word |
| Written by | A woman, 22, unsigned |
| Addressed to | Good-looking men |
| Where | Replies to Box 1024, Matrimonial Journal Office, Toronto |
The Anglo-American Matrimonial Journal was a paper of marriage ads, run from an office in Toronto. Canadiana, the Canadian Research Knowledge Network’s digital collection, holds one issue: Vol. 1, No. 1, December 1886. Its ads are sorted by class and sex, and the price rose with the class: a cent a word for the lower class, two for the middle and three for the upper. Replies went to numbered boxes at the Journal’s office, and a few box numbers are printed twice.
She is one of several women in the lower-class column who state their savings: a widow of 40 has $300 and a small store, and a woman of 45 asks for a steady man “worth as much as advertiser, viz., $450.”
Public domain: published in 1886.
Transcribed from the page image on Canadiana and checked against the original; spelling and punctuation are as printed, and words broken across lines are rejoined.
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