A farmer, 45, seeks a wife not over 40 (1905)

Personal1905

HONORABLE, INTELLIGENT, WELL to do farmer, widower, aged 45, wishes the acquaintance of a lady not over 40. Object matrimony. Address by letter, J. W. care Statesman.

Evening Statesman, October 11, 1905, p. 7. View the original page at the Library of Congress

In plain English

A respectable, sensible and comfortable farmer, a widower of 45, wants to meet a woman no older than 40, to marry. Write to him care of the newspaper.

Who wrote it, and to whom

Newspaper	Evening Statesman, Walla Walla, Washington
Date	October 11, 1905, page 7
Written by	A farmer and widower, 45
Addressed to	Women no older than 40
Where	Replies by letter to the Statesman

Context

The same ad ran daily from October 9 to 12, 1905.

In the Personals Dictionary

Object matrimony Well to do Box, care of the office

Tagged

matrimony widows and widowers written by men

How to cite this ad

“A farmer, 45, seeks a wife not over 40.” Personal advertisement, Evening Statesman (Walla Walla, Washington), October 11, 1905, p. 7. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1905-walla-walla-statesman-farmer-widower-45.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. An ink blot covers the end of widower and the comma after it; both are read from context. 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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