A struggling widow seeks a widower of wealth (1898)

Personal1898

PERSONAL—A HARDWORKING, HONEST widow, struggling to support her little family, would like to meet a good and true-hearted old gentleman (widower) of wealth; object, matrimony. Address H, Box 40, Herald.

Los Angeles Herald, August 7, 1898, image 9. View the original page at the Library of Congress

In plain English

A hardworking, honest widow raising children on her own wants to meet a kind older widower with money, to marry.

Who wrote it, and to whom

Newspaper	Los Angeles Herald, Los Angeles, California
Date	August 7, 1898, image 9 of the scanned issue (no printed page number)
Written by	A widow with children
Addressed to	Older widowers of wealth
Where	Replies to the Herald office

In the Personals Dictionary

Object matrimony Box, care of the office

Tagged

matrimony widows and widowers written by women

How to cite this ad

“A struggling widow seeks a widower of wealth.” Personal advertisement, Los Angeles Herald (Los Angeles, California), August 7, 1898, image 9. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1898-los-angeles-herald-hardworking-widow.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 machine-read text misreads the address; H, Box 40 is taken from the page image. 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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