missed connections

Came across this via a friend - Advertising for Love, a blog which regularly posts personals ads from New York papers of the 19th century! Follow the mysterious coded messages of 'Salla Rand and Lilla Rand'! Wish that the lonely widow and respectable matron who advertised a year apart found each other! Laugh at the colonel and his booty calls! Wonder if the 'Romeo' ever found 'any of the young ladies who were on broad way last week' to form a 'matrimonial alliance'! It's great.