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Object Matrimony:
The Risky Business of Mail-Order Matchmaking on the Western Frontier
Helping eligible men and women find one another, correspond, and marry was the main goal of the publication The New Plan. Published in Kansas City, Missouri, the magazine’s purpose was to unite lonely hearts, with various monetary and social backgrounds who were unable to find a desirable life partner. Here are few of those ads written in 1911 and 1912.
#2012: “Would like to get married, because I’m lonesome. Am considered rather good looking and of a lovable disposition. Age, 35; 5 feet 5 inches; weight 145; hazel eyes; brown hair; American; occupation, stenographer and bookkeeper. Will inherit a few thousand. Will answer all letters.”
#1672: “Society has no charms for me; prefer a quiet life. Am an American lady, with common school education; well thought of an respected; age, 25; height 5 feet 9 inches; weight, 155; blue eyes; light hair. Have means of $3,000. Wish correspondence with good natured, honest, industrious man.”
#2061: “Dear old men, here is your chance to get a true loving companion. I am a widow by death; age 69 years, but don’t look or feel or act over 40; always in good humor, very loving and kind; a good housekeeper, weight 104, height 5 feet 2 inches, blue eyes, brown hair, nationality German; would like to meet some congenial gentlemen near my own age, with means enough to make a good home.”
To learn more about the serious business of finding a husband or wife by mail in the wide-open days of the Old West read
Object Matrimony:
The Risky Business of Mail-Order Matchmaking on the Western Frontier
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