A gentleman with a rich claim in the Klondike (1898)

Personal1898

GENTLEMAN, age 30, has rich claim Klondike, wishes lady of some means to accompany him. Box 1479, Call office.

San Francisco Call, March 6, 1898, p. 12. View the original page at the Library of Congress

In plain English

A 30-year-old man says he owns a valuable gold claim in the Klondike, and he wants a woman with some money to go north with him.

Who wrote it, and to whom

Newspaper	San Francisco Call, San Francisco, California
Date	March 6, 1898, page 12
Written by	A man, 30
Addressed to	Women of some means
Where	Replies to the Call office

Context

The Klondike gold rush in Canada's Yukon was at its height in 1898, and San Francisco was one of the main ports for men heading north. A rich claim was a common boast; whether this one was real, the ad doesn't say.

In the Personals Dictionary

Of means Box, care of the office

Tagged

gold rush written by men

How to cite this ad

“A gentleman with a rich claim in the Klondike.” Personal advertisement, San Francisco Call (San Francisco, California), March 6, 1898, p. 12. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1898-san-francisco-call-rich-claim-klondike.html.

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. 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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