While replacing a wall in my basement, I found a 100-year-old marriage certificate.Submitted by woden_spoon t3_z8bdn8 in mildlyinteresting
cadude1 t1_iyb9l37 wrote
It's interesting that the line for the first person's name has "Mr." printed, but the line for the other person's name has just "M". I wonder what the other possibilities were besides "Miss"
woden_spoon OP t1_iybdgdp wrote
Probably Miss (Ms.), for previously unmarried women, and Mistress (Mrs.) for divorcees, widows, etc. For men, the common abbreviation for Master and Mister (Mr.) was the same.
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