Classified Ad Request in Historic Notices
Help wanted and rooms ad request format described with 18 word minimum and 1 cent per insertion. Six average words per line, no ad under 15 words, billing instructions included. User seeks 109 SY in total.
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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1912
Page
8
Help wanted and rooms ad request format described with 18 word minimum and 1 cent per insertion. Six average words per line, no ad under 15 words, billing instructions included. User seeks 109 SY in total.
Special notice states no advertisement will be discontinued on phone orders and requests written notification to stop advertising. It emphasizes the phone line is for want ads only and promises prompt, polite and efficient service.
A dense OCR snippet lists job ads and notices across diverse postings. Items include WANTED Foreman at Woodward Lumber, vacancies for carpenters and clerks, sales agents, barber training, railway clerks, and routes for The Atlanta Constitution. Several entries request references and specify locations like Atlanta and Macon, with dates and contact addresses.
A dense jumble lists lost items including a large gray horse, a gold watch, a blue worsted coat, a Jersey cow, and a gold boy’s seal ring with initials H C, plus found laundry service and numerous helper and job ads. It reads like a wartime urban classified page with rewards offered, contact details, and small notices from multiple locals.
A flood of classified ads offers room and board in private homes across Atlanta. Listings include steam heated rooms with meals at various addresses such as 24 Hurt Street Irman Park and 29 Hast Harria Street, with multiple phone contacts like Ivy and Main numbers. Several entries promise first class table board, private baths, and proximity to Peachtrees, Georgian Terrace, and Peachtree area, targeting couples and young men, with prices ranging from four dollars for table board to higher weekly rates and furnished suites.
Arrival and departure figures for passenger trains in Atlanta are published for information only and not guaranteed. Schedule shows daily operation except Sunday with Sunday service noted as kSunday only.
Atlanta Terminal Station shows arrival and departure figures for trains to and from New York Columbus Savannah Jacksonville and other cities. The schedule includes connections to Montgomery Montg’y Macon Albany West Point and more with times such as 6:30 am 7:07 am and 4:2 pm, plus a note that these figures are for information and not guaranteed.
Partial timetable shows routes from Atlanta to Brunswick Waycross Thomasville Fitzgerald and connections to Augusta Covington Buckhead Lithonia and New York with listed departure and arrival times and Pullman cars on night trains between Atlanta Thomasville and Atlanta Waycross.
Reader solicits buys for old shoes and clothing and seeks cheap Shetland pony for children. Multiple listings offer cash for household goods pianos and furniture, window cleaning, stenography, and unspecified auction ads. Scattered notices invite real estate offers, rental inquiries, and estate claims information from International Claim Agency and others.
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