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This is the Useless Information Podcast.

I am Steve Silverman.

Useless Information. information.

Back in 1952, a man named Jesse L Garrett of Scott Depot, West Virginia,

was watching Groucho Marks on television.

The comedian was interviewing a woman who had previously appeared on a show and then she later

married one of the men who had seen her on the air at the time.

Garrett said,

I thought if a woman could do it, so could a man.

So in June of 1952, he wrote to the editor of the Rockport Democrat in Indiana and expressed his interest in advertising

in the newspaper for a wife.

He was very particular in what he was looking for.

He expressed a preference for a

for a Midwestern woman and one who would make for an intellectual wife, companion and mother of my two sons.

He felt that

a woman from a rural community would be more like my way of thinking.

Jesse preferred.

A farm woman of good standing.

A woman with some financial backing so that life would not be uneven and our social

standings would be about the same. He added, I prefer a woman about 135

pounds, a little more or less, and between the ages of 35 and 45.

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