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Authors: Chris Enss

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A lively widower of 40, looking much younger, 5 feet 7 inches high, weighing 145 pounds would like to correspond with some maiden or widow lady of honor who would like a good home, kind husband and plenty.

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A miller by trade having some means strictly temperate. 30 years old, brunette would like to correspond with a good-looking lady of some means; object matrimony.

An unidentified mail-order bride submitted this photograph to the Kansas City edition of the
Matrimonial News
in 1890.

NEVADA COUNTY SEARLS HISTORICAL LIBRARY

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I am fond of fun, age 18, height 5 feet 5 inches, weight 140 pounds, have auburn hair, dark eyes; I want a gentleman correspondent, from 20 to 25. Object, fun and perhaps matrimony if suited.

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A widow of 28. 5 feet 2 inches tall, black eyes and hair, weighing 125 pounds, wishes to make the acquaintance of some dark complexioned gentlemen of 25 to 45; am a first rate housekeeper.

The Kansas City edition of the
Matrimonial News
published photographs of prospective brides like this young woman.

NEVADA COUNTY SEARLS HISTORICAL LIBRARY

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I am fat, fair, and 48, 5 feet high. Am a No. 1 lady, well fixed with no encumbrance: am in business in city, but want a partner who lives in the West. Want an energetic man that has some means, not under 40 years of age and weight not less than 180. Of good habits. A Christian gentlemen preferred.

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I am a widow, aged 28, have one child, height 64 inches, blue eyes, weight 125 pounds, loving disposition. I am poor; would like to hear from honorable men from 30 to 40 years of old: working men preferred.

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If there is a gentlemen of honor and intelligence between the ages of 35 and 50 who wants a genuine housekeeper, let him write to this number. I am a widow, 34 years old, weight 110 pounds, 4 feet and 5 inches in height: am brunette and have very fine black hair.

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A girl who will love, honest, true and not sour; a nice little cooing dove, and willing to work in flour.

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