A matinee, the second balcony, and opera glasses on loan.
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WILL the gentleman who accepted the loan of opera glasses from lady sitting in second balcony, last row, Columbia Theater matinee, March 14, communicate with box 317, Call; important.
| Newspaper | San Francisco Call, San Francisco, California |
|---|---|
| Date | March 22, 1903, page 43 |
| Written by | A woman, unsigned |
| Addressed to | The man who borrowed her opera glasses |
| Where | Replies to box 317, the Call |
March 14, 1903, was a Saturday. Opera glasses were small binoculars for the theater. She gives the balcony, the row, and the date, everything he would need to know it was her, and one word of urgency: important. Four years earlier the Call had carried a missed meeting at the ferry depot, and in 1912 a search for the lady in the second box at the Tivoli. 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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