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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1919
Page
21
Classified section outlines advertising rates and agate line spacing for promotions. Includes Wanted Autos Apartments Boarders Rooms For Sale Furnished Rooms Employment Agencies and a range of headings with pricing notes and column guides.
Pleasantville area boards advertise country home accommodations for families with suites private baths and meals at $10 to $25 weekly. Listings include Yonkers Rome New Rochelle and Freeport options with weekly rates and contact details for caretakers and lodging houses along the Hudson and waterfront areas.
Classified notices show country board and furnished rooms for summer near Bradley Beach Villa Pauline and Elberda New Jersey, plus Berkshires exclusive retreat. Listings include rates, amenities like private baths and hot water, and nearby Manhattan commuting options. Also seeks two college students for camp duty and summer boarding requests from families and schools.
A collection of classified asks from women seeking work: a beginner bookkeeper stenographer and overn ess companion to a widow with a motherless child, housekeeper assistant, prim German or Italian speakers, a summer masseuse, licensed masseuse with facial skills, nursery governess for two children, nurse girl for country work, stenographers in legal or insurance fields, a military nurse with four years’ hospital office experience, a typist with precise references, an excellent French tutor for country or travel, a pianist with English and French fluency, and a young lady seeking chamber work and sewing in Long Branch or Asbury Park with strong references.
Classified notice listing male applicants including an accountant with bookkeeping and tax-report services, a CPA seeking a corporate role, a draftsman with heating plant layout experience, an architectural draftsman, an Army officer seeking a civil job, bookkeepers, cashiers, chauffeurs, and engineers. Locations include Times Downtown and various addresses in New York.
A flood of brief notices shows men of varied ages and skills seeking jobs in sales, engineering, administration, teaching, and management. Candidates list languages, education, and experiences from clerical to mechanical work, aiming for promotions, commissions, or long term positions in firms around Harlem and Brooklyn.
A long list of help wanted ads across New York and Brooklyn including cooks, laundresses for a seaside summer home, demonstrators for grocery trade, designers for jewelry and neckwear, office and clerical staff, hairdressers, lunchroom workers, maids, millinery makers, models, saleswomen, nurses, and secretaries. Positions specify ages, skills, wages, and contact addresses such as 753 Madison Ave, Seaside Home Surf Ave, United Cereal Mills 62 Warren &J, NASARALLAH & MEENA 48 West 25th, Brighton Beach Hotel, H. E. Lansdown 440 4th Ave, Madame Leona 2265 Broadway, and more.
A collage of ads invites applicants for telephone operator and typist positions in New York area hotels offices and firms. Listings include state salary options from 12 to 18 dollars per hour central office experience preferred dictaphone stenography and rapid operator roles with openings at Walker Street Queensboro tube area and Christian firms plus craft jobs for waist and skirt finishers in Harlem/Hammond area.
Numerous small ads seek young women for addressing circulars with pleasant surroundings and 9 to 5 hours at a weekly salary of 12 dollars. Other positions include bookkeepers assistants typists stenographers clerks and chambermaids with varying salaries and requirements at locations such as Times Downtown Broadway and 16 West 19th Street.
Numerous ads invite stenographers and typists with varied language skills and education. Applicants must state age experience education and salary expectations or provide references. Opportunities span automobile, legal, wholesale, and service sectors with salaries from modest to competitive and preference for neat appearance and multilingual ability.
A course promises a high salary for completing four weeks of instruction in filing indexing and cataloging. It offers practical practice with full filing systems and notes graduates are in demand. Prospects can request a free booklet by writing or calling Franklin 2261.
A column of early 20th century classified ads promotes English language courses and secretarial training. Listings include public speaking guides, business English classes, shorthand, bookkeeping, and penmanship. Several ads promise placement help and immediate switchboard operator positions with varied wages.
Help wanted notices seek a male accountant with executive ability and manufacturing experience and references for character and ability, plus estate details and salary. Also positions for an advertising salesman with financial experience and agency contacts, an advertising solicitor for magazine space, and an architectural draftsman at Lord & Burnham Co. in Irvington-on-Hudson New York.
The note stresses understanding none and rear-end work plus steady work. It calls for Mr. Bailey in Atlantic Ave Brooklyn as the contact for guidance.
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