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Evening Star · April 25, 1889

The young lady with a bouquet of pink roses

A Washington streetcar notice with a flower, a line, a stop and an exact time.

Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.


Personal1889

WILL YOUNG LADY WHO WORE BOUQUET OF pink roses on navy-yard car, and got off at 8th and G sts. s.e., at 6 p.m. April 24th, communicate with gentleman who sat just in rear. Address NAVY, Star office.

Evening Star, April 25, 1889, p. 2. View the original page at the Library of Congress

In plain English

To the young woman carrying pink roses on the Navy Yard car, who got off at 8th and G Streets Southeast at 6 p.m. on April 24: the man sitting just behind her would like her to write to Navy at the Star.

Who wrote it, and to whom

NewspaperEvening Star, Washington, District of Columbia
DateApril 25, 1889, page 2
Written byA man, writing as Navy
Addressed toOne woman, seen on a streetcar
WhereReplies to the Star office

Context

The notice ran the day after the ride it describes.

In the Personals Dictionary

Will the lady whoCommunicate withBox, care of the office

Tagged

missed connectionswritten by men

How to cite this ad

“The young lady with a bouquet of pink roses.” Personal advertisement, Evening Star (Washington, District of Columbia), April 25, 1889, p. 2. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1889-evening-star-bouquet-of-pink-roses-navy-yard-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 trailing printer's code at the end of the notice is omitted. 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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