Among the many letters flooding the mail of William T. Adams, local machinist who not long ago suddenly fell heir to $750,000 upon the death of a rich relative in England, there are many flattering offers of marriage from members of the fair sex all over the country. Adams is much in demand on the marriage market, as evidenced by the text of the letters he receives.
Some of them are anxious to make a good companion to minister to his wants, and the virtues they attribute to themselves would make the Vestal Virgins blush with shame. Others are more modern and would help him tread the primrose path and feed the swine as lavishly as did the Prodigal Son. A sample of the intermediate kind of letters comes from a traveling woman who was born in Kentucky and claims enough Western ideas to help her get away from conventionality. This lady offers herself as a companion with the legal right to help him make a home and enjoy life.
Still others are pressing him for a speedy marriage, and so many offers are coming to him that he is having a hard time making a selection. He is about to compromise the matter by picking out some 35-year-old mill girl, who knows how to work and isn’t imbued with so many “western” ideas.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., July 7, 1922
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