Six months after Pearl Harbor, someone in Washington starts a social circle by classified ad.
Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.
A CLUB IS BEING FORMED FOR NON-smoking, cultured, middle-aged people. Write fully. Box 394-H. Star.
| Newspaper | Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
|---|---|
| Date | June 14, 1942, page E-10 |
| Written by | Not stated |
| Addressed to | Middle-aged non-smokers |
| Where | Replies to a Star box |
Washington's population grew quickly during the Second World War as government work drew people to the city, and for newcomers a notice like this was one way to build a circle from scratch. Asking people to write fully meant the writer wanted a letter, not just a name. In the Evening Star issues from the 1930s and 1940s checked for this archive, the personal column carried far more notices about lodging, work and services than about courtship, and the personal ads that remained were often about finding company of any kind.
Believed to be in the public domain: this newspaper did not renew copyright for these years, though the Library of Congress notes that newspapers of this period may contain some third-party material still under copyright.
Transcribed from the page image and checked against the original; spelling and punctuation are as printed, and words broken across lines are rejoined. The middle digit of the box number is blurred; 394 is the best reading. The trailing printer's mark 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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