The button mania prevails at Shelbyville among the young ladies. They all want buttons to the amount of a hundred each. The young man that gives them the hundredth one, they say, is their intended husband. If they don’t get a hundred we are fearful some of them will be sadly disappointed.

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 21 Sept. 1867, Page 1. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.