A 42-year-old widow lists her skills and the one thing she is looking for.
Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.
REFINED widow, 42, excellent housekeeper, fine cook, desires to meet elderly gentleman of sufficient means to provide comfortable home; object matrimony. Address box 4926, Call office, Oakland.
| Newspaper | San Francisco Call, San Francisco, California |
|---|---|
| Date | August 30, 1912, page 14 |
| Written by | A widow, 42 |
| Addressed to | Older men of means |
| Where | Replies to the Call's Oakland office |
In the same column, just above this ad, someone was still looking for a lady seen at the Tivoli opera house during Luisa Tetrazzini's La Traviata in 1905, seven years earlier.
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 newspaper's machine-read text is badly garbled here, so this is transcribed directly 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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