Seven words and a box number, in the middle of the war.
Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.
IF YOU PLAY SKAT, communicate with Box 389-K, Star.
| Newspaper | Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
|---|---|
| Date | June 11, 1944, page D-3 |
| Written by | Not stated |
| Addressed to | Skat players |
| Where | Replies to a Star box |
Skat is a three-player card game from Germany, and a game needs exactly the right number of people. The ad ran five days after D-Day. 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 separator after K is read at lower magnification, and 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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