A Gold Rush notice: a woman has followed her husband to California, and cannot find him.
Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.
INFORMATION WANTED OF WM. FARRILL, who left Cabbottsville, Massachusetts, three years ago last March. His wife is now stopping at the St. Charles Hotel, Shasta, and will be truly thankful for any information relating to Mr. F. Oct. 20, 1855. o20-3t
| Newspaper | Shasta Courier, Shasta, California |
|---|---|
| Date | October 27, 1855, image 3 of the scanned issue (no printed page number) |
| Written by | A wife |
| Addressed to | Anyone with news of William Farrill |
| Where | Replies in person at the St. Charles Hotel, Shasta |
Shasta was a Gold Rush town in northern California, and notices like this one were common as families tried to trace men who had gone west. The ad spells the town Cabbottsville; the place was Cabotville, Massachusetts, a mill village that had become part of Chicopee by 1848. The closing o20-3t is the printer's code: first run October 20, three times.
Public domain in the United States: published before 1931.
Transcribed from the page image and checked against the original; spelling and punctuation are as printed, and words broken across lines are rejoined. The closing dateline and printer's code are confirmed from the newspaper's machine-read text because they fall at the edge of the page image. Capital letters are also as printed: papers set the first line of each ad in capitals, so the capitals stop wherever that line ended, sometimes in the middle of a word.
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