A 22-year-old sets her own search radius in dollars and turns away the professionals.
Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.
PRETTY, intelligent American girl 22, from wealthy parentage, seeks acquaintance with young good-looking professional man, brunette, from orhtodox parentage. From New York or about $2 fare from New York. No matchmakers. Tageblatt Box 415.
| Newspaper | Jewish Daily News (Yidishes Tageblatt), New York, New York |
|---|---|
| Date | June 12, 1927, page 7 |
| Written by | A woman, 22 |
| Addressed to | Young professional men from Orthodox families |
| Where | Replies to a Tageblatt box |
A $2 fare is a distance limit measured in money, and No matchmakers is aimed at the marriage brokers whose ads filled the same columns. She was doing it herself.
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. Orthodox is misprinted in the original, and the spelling is kept as printed; 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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