Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1909 — 1,000 Proposals by Mail. [ARTICLE]

1,000 Proposals by Mail.

Mrs. Francis Livingston, of Boyd. Wis., sometime hgo placed in a Wisconsin local newspaper, an advert scment for a husband. The advertisement was seized upon by papers throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and even Europe. As a result she had the large-t number of suitors of any woman in the world — not enamored suitors who vainly endeavored to call upon the charming one every evening or who fought duels to decide who should have her hand, but correspondent suitors who overworked their brains in some lone corner, endeavoring to express with the pen their infatuation for the advertising belle. Men of all positions in life answered; professional business, mechanical, laboring, and love-lorn. Louis Struvnez, of Dorchester, Wis., was the one whose diplomatic and eloquent pen dashed off the love missive to win the prize. He must surely feel proud as he bad the on’y one chance in a thousand to win—and he did. Besides, he gets an Interest in a good farm and a nice bank account.