1899 – Lost in Klondike – Provost

News from the Klondike back in the 1899’s was slow and sometimes wrong.

Here is an item from the Anaconda, Montana newspaper giving a correction to a May report, and an item about Mr. Provost.

Cities and names in the 1899 newspaper report:
Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Victor Edair, Victor Altaire Jr.,

Boston, Massachusetts
M. Provost, Roger Provost,
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The Anaconda standard. (Anaconda, Mont.),
20 June 1899.
Chronicling America:
Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84036012/1899-06-20/ed-1/seq-2/