Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1889 — HE FINDS A SPIRIT. [ARTICLE]

HE FINDS A SPIRIT.

A Detroit Man’s Long; Search for a Wife Rewarded. Augustus Day,the wealthy Detroit, Mich., man who has been invoking all these disengaged spirits and all the matrimonial newspapers to help him secure a wife, has found one at last, without thanks to either of the above named agencies. He dispaired of obtaining a wife through their aid and made personal search for one. The bride he has won was Mrs. K. Sanger, a widow thirty-two years old and decidedly good looking. Mr. Day is sixty-eight years old, but is well preserved and has about 1250,000 and no family incumbrances. The wedding took place qiiietly Friday evening and the couple have gone up St. Lawrence on a wedding trip. It is estimated that Mr. Day has written 2,000 letters and spent $5,000, andconversed with no less 200 disembodied spirits in search of an « affinity. '