A fall from a streetcar, and a stranger who helped.
Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.
WILL the gentleman who so kindly assisted lady who fell from a westbound McAllister streetcar near Fulton street and 2d av. at 8 o'clock p. m. March 25, 1913, please forward his name and address to box 3295, Call office.
| Newspaper | San Francisco Call, San Francisco, California |
|---|---|
| Date | April 9, 1913, page 12 |
| Written by | Unsigned |
| Addressed to | The man who helped the woman who fell |
| Where | Replies to box 3295, the Call office |
March 25, 1913, was a Tuesday, and the ad ran fifteen days later. Fulton Street at Second Avenue is on the north edge of Golden Gate Park, near its eastern end, and the McAllister cars ran out along Fulton. The ad gives the direction, the corner, the hour, and the date, and asks only for his name and address. Six years earlier, in Salt Lake City, a woman who had fainted looked for the gentleman who helped her home. For where people in the Bay Area post missed connections now, see our guide to personal ads in San Francisco.
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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