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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1925
Page
18
The Post-Telegram Want Ads announce daily distribution to about 140,000 people in Bridgeport and surrounding area. Readers are urged to advertise any need or item for sale to reach a broad local audience.
Advertisements offer jobs for salesmen and handlers at various firms with pay from 40 per week, weekly cash, and home work options. Listings request ages 18 and older, experience in production or supervisory roles, and provide contact methods across multiple addresses. Some entries promise training, others seek skilled trades and factory staff with references.
Classified lines show multiple women seeking domestic work and clerical roles, with addresses and contact notes. Also minor lost item notices and vehicle plate inquiry, reflecting a general helper economy in a small town.
A terse classified snippet offers rooms for rent in Stratford Connecticut with a contact phone at 168. The brief notes improvements and locations hint at an available lodging option.
A collage of job listings seeking experienced operators on dresses and sewing, hand sewers, joiners, and formers plus clerical stenography. Also domestic help, chambermaids, waitresses, general housework, and light duties. Applicants should state qualifications and salary expectations.
A cluttered ad list shows single and two family houses near Bridgeport with full improvements, garages, and corner lots. Firms Clark & Son and Schnee & Schnee Inc advertise builds near State and Lafayette as well as Stratford areas, with contact numbers and terms.
Multiple vehicle listings offer Packard sixes sedans coupes tourings and other makes like Buick and Ford. Ads promote quick sale prices down payments small or no down and terms, with locations in Stratford, Benton, and related streets.
Trucking and storage ads list many firms offering fireproof storage for furniture and general merchandise, packing, crating, moving, and shipping. Local and long distance movers claim reliability, competitive rates, vans and trucks, and routes to New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Providence, Hartford, Worcester, and more, with contact details and specials for piano moving and packing.
Classified notes advertise carpentry and floor refinishing by Conrad M Rolle, rug dry cleaning and upholstery by J Wilkinson, furniture recovery and fabric selection by Bucking ham & Co, mattress renovations by Zalinger, and plan tuning and plaster services by John Be Wooste. Also mentions mailing office building and miscellaneous ads.
Multiple rental offers listed with improvements and amenities. Madison Burnsford corner property includes lawn and all conveniences. Burns Co. contact 180 Lend Ley St. Garages, heat, and modern comforts described across several ads. References required. ads note furnished and unfurnished options, service meals, and farm house availability.
Plumnjer Typewriter Exchange at 186 Fairfield Ave sells and rents portable typewriters and offers repairs and exchanges for Underwood Remington Smith and Royale brands.
Classified ad seeks an unfurnished room south of State Street near 19004. Individual prefers a furnished option in the same area and asks for responses with ad details to the stated address in the notice.
Notice appears to offer furnished rooms for light housekeeping in a rental near Fast End. The ad provides only a partial address line, limiting precise location details. Further OCR clarity is needed to identify housing provider and exact street.
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