(Historynet.com) Within days of New Year’s 1872 typesetters at the New York daily newspaper
Pomeroy’s Democrat, owned by eclectic businessman and journalist Marcus M. “Brick” Pomeroy, put the finishing touches on the January 6 edition. One brief item, just 32 words in length, was a personal ad placed by a woman of Irish heritage living out West:
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