In Salt Lake City, one word told readers a great deal.
Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.
GENTLEMAN, 45, WANTS TO MEET Gentile lady of loving disposition, 35-40; object matrimony. N-46, Tribune.
| Newspaper | Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah |
|---|---|
| Date | July 29, 1907, page 8 |
| Written by | A man, 45 |
| Addressed to | Non-Mormon women aged 35 to 40 |
| Where | Replies to a Tribune box |
In Utah, Gentile was the everyday word for anyone who was not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Salt Lake Tribune was the city's non-Mormon daily, so the ad was written for exactly the readership it reached.
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 punctuation after the age range is faint in the scan; it appears to be a semicolon. 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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