A first-person ad that gets straight to the point: home, savings, intention.
Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.
I AM a business man, aged 40, good home and several thousand dollars; would marry. Address S 9, Bee.
| Newspaper | Omaha Daily Bee, Omaha, Nebraska |
|---|---|
| Date | January 26, 1902, page 16 |
| Written by | A businessman, 40 |
| Addressed to | Women |
| Where | Replies to the Bee office |
Most ads of the period described the writer in the third person, as a gentleman or a widower. This one starts with I AM. It ran directly above the widow's ad in the same column.
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. The trailing printer's code 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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