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Show IOWA GIRLS SEEK . IIUSBAliDS FROM .Y MINESOF NEVADA DAVENPORT, Ia, Feb, 18. Ten young- women have signed a round robin and mailed it 'to the editor ' of a Nevada1 newspaper with a request to "be a good man now and print this." The loint letter reads aa follows: "Having heard ab many reports of the golden treasures being yielded up daily by the hills of Nevada, and that the ratio of unmarried men. in your Bute is about twenty to one woman, we take the liberty of asking if there may not be some chance for us. We are all young ladies between the ages of 18 and 24 years, of respectable reputations repu-tations and good education. "Each of us can rook and thorough ly 'attend to the duties of a household. We want to come to Nevada and would be willing to marry suitable young men. We send photographs of ourselves our-selves in your care, together with any information desired. "We are nearly all of us girls who hare had to work for a living, and believe be-lieve the chances for a kind and loving husband and good home are better in Nevada than here." We live in Daven- HI., 'on 'the banks of the Mississippi river "Won't you please try and help us in this matter, as we are in earnest and really want to come to Nevadaf Will answer any inquiries which may eome to us and which have your approval as to reliability."- |