Dating adverts in newspapers

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Personal ads changed dating, but they also provided source material for sociologists and psychologists to understand how people choose mates. Humans choose mates instinctively and by cultural context. The advertisers and responders no longer relied on recommendations from their community, or a roommate putting in a good word, to decide if a potential mate was a good match. Individuals had to sell themselves. Newspaper personal ads offered a data pool for researchers to study how dating choices are made.

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Long before the advent of the internet and smartphones, singles looked to newspaper personal advertisements to meet their suitors. Researchers at MyHeritage , a family-history research company, scoured their databases for the juiciest personal ads in newspapers across the country, from the Pittsburgh Press to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. These 19th and 20th century callouts offer a look into how our grandparents and great-grandparents found love and marriage long before Tinder. They'd share their preferences with a marriage advertising agency, who would place the ads in local newspapers.

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These Personal Dating Ads From 1800s Newspapers Are Hilarious And Sweet

Popular in the 19th century and early 20th century, they were the perfect way to find a spouse through advertisement instead of hoping to find someone in-person. Some of the ads are very sweet and wholesome, including this ad that went viral on Twitter in I have taken up a State lot, cleared up eighteen acres last year, and seeded ten of it down.

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