A bow on a streetcar, to someone she had not seen in months.
Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.
WILL THE LADY WHO ON THURSday evening bowed to gentleman in Welton street car, whom she had not seen for several months, please send her address to "C-B," postoffice box 2471.
| Newspaper | Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colorado |
|---|---|
| Date | May 19, 1888, page 7 |
| Written by | A man, signed C-B |
| Addressed to | The woman who bowed to him |
| Where | Replies to C-B, post office box 2471 |
The ad first ran on Friday, May 18, 1888, so the Thursday was May 17, and it ran again the next day. Unlike most missed connections, this one was between two people who had met before: she bowed to a man she knew, and he asks for her address. It ran in the same column as a stranger’s request for letters from ladies “matrimonially inclined”. For where people in Denver post missed connections now, see our guide to personal ads in Denver.
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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