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Arizona Republican · November 8, 1920

A working man of small means, 40

Forty, employed, and hoping to keep company.

Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.


Personals1920

WORKING MAN of small means, 40, employed, would like to keep company with working woman of suitable age; object, matrimony. Box 1B, Republican. r

Arizona Republican, November 8, 1920, image 18. View the original page at the Library of Congress

In plain English

A working man of 40 with a job and not much money would like to court a working woman of a suitable age, with marriage in mind. Replies go to Box 1B at the Republican.

Who wrote it, and to whom

NewspaperArizona Republican, Phoenix, Arizona
DateNovember 8, 1920, image 18 of the scanned issue (Section Two)
Written byA working man, 40
Addressed toWorking women of a suitable age
WhereReplies to Box 1B, the Republican

Context

November 8, 1920, was a Monday. Where many ads asked for means, this one admits to small means and asks for a working woman, not a lady of property. To keep company was to court. The closing r is the paper’s insertion code. For where people in Phoenix and Tucson post personal ads now, see our guide to personal ads in Phoenix and Tucson.

In the Personals Dictionary

Moderate circumstancesObject matrimonyBox, care of the officeInsertion codes (1t, 3t)Keep company

Tagged

matrimonywritten by men

How to cite this ad

“A working man of small means, 40.” Personal advertisement, Arizona Republican (Phoenix, Arizona), November 8, 1920, image 18. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1920-arizona-republican-working-man-of-small-means.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 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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