A widower past 50, with a handsomely furnished home (1905)

Personal1905

WIDOWER, past 50, no encumbrance, financially well off, occupying own handsomely furnished home, with housekeeper only, domestic in habits, desires the acquaintance of a refined lady, not over 40, without encumbrance; object, matrimony. Address Sincere, Box 97, News office.

Newark Evening News, September 12, 1905, p. 12. View the original page at the Newark Public Library’s newspaper archive

In plain English

A widower over 50 with no dependents, comfortably off and living in his own well-furnished house with only a housekeeper, a homebody by habit, would like to meet a refined woman no older than 40, also without dependents, with marriage in mind. Replies go to Sincere, Box 97, at the News office.

Who wrote it, and to whom

Newspaper	Newark Evening News, Newark, New Jersey
Date	September 12, 1905, page 12
Written by	A widower over 50, signing Sincere
Addressed to	Refined women, 40 or under, without dependents
Where	Replies to Box 97, the News office

Context

“No encumbrance” meant no dependents, and he asks the same of her. He describes his household down to the housekeeper, and signs himself Sincere, as a widow had in the same paper in 1899. The same column carried a refined American lady who wanted to correspond. For where people in New Jersey post personal ads now, see our guide to personal ads in New Jersey.

In the Personals Dictionary

Unencumbered Refined Object matrimony Box, care of the office

Tagged

matrimony widows and widowers written by men

How to cite this ad

“A widower past 50, with a handsomely furnished home.” Personal advertisement, Newark Evening News (Newark, New Jersey), September 12, 1905, p. 12. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1905-newark-evening-news-widower-past-50-furnished-home.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. Capital letters are also as printed: papers set the first word of each ad in capitals.

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