Good-looking and tall, he would like the friendship of a nice, pretty girl, with a view to marriage.
Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.
GOOD looking, tall, young man, fond pictures, desires friendship of nice, pretty girl, with a view to mat., send snap if possible; Z129, “Telegraph.”
| Newspaper | The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland |
|---|---|
| Date | July 8, 1938, page 20 |
| Section | Missing Friends, Inquiries |
| Written by | A young man, unsigned |
| Addressed to | Nice, pretty girls |
| Where | Replies to Z129, the Telegraph |
The Telegraph was a Brisbane newspaper, published from 1872 to 1947. On July 8, 1938, page 20 carried a column headed Missing Friends, Inquiries, and most of it was about marriage. Holt’s Matrimonial Bureau, in the basement of the O.K. Buildings at 117 Queen Street, ran several ads in it, promising “absolute privacy” and offering its own Lonely Persons’ Club, and two correspondence clubs asked for a club fee and a stamped envelope. The column runs roughly in alphabetical order, by first word.
The pictures meant the cinema, and “fond pictures” is fond of the pictures with the small words dropped, as they are across the column. Mat. is short for matrimony, and a snap was a snapshot photograph; a young man in Kalgoorlie had asked for a snap “if possible” the year before.
Public domain in Australia, where it was published in 1938 without the writer’s name.
Transcribed from the page image on Trove and checked against the original; spelling, abbreviations, and punctuation are as printed, and words broken across lines are rejoined.
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