Looking for love? The Citizen was yesterday's Tinder

Today, you swipe right. Back then, you wrote to the newspaper.
A glance through the Citizen’s archives shows that before there were dating apps and profile pics, there were personals.
Around the turn-of-the-century, they were terse and transactional. By the 1980s, they were – literally – swinging.
A “maiden lady” – she was all of 33 – of  “considerable property” wrote home from Toledo, Ohio in 1904 that she “desires a gentleman &nd