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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1908
Page
20
Female help wanted ads list positions for educated energetic women, housework, cooking, companionship, night waiter, millinery, and boarders. Employers seek steady, honest young women with references, offering wages and evening or light hours, with contact details across Washington area addresses and phone numbers.
A dense listing of general housework positions including colored and white women sought for meals, laundry, cleaning, and child care in suburban areas. Various wages from monthly to nightly rates, with several calls for in person interviews or box numbers.
Various lost items including jewelry pins bracelets rings a gold watch and a pocketbook from locations around 16th to 21st streets NW and nearby avenues. Rewards offered for return to addresses on New Jersey Avenue Northwest Wyoming Avenue Northwest and other local spots. Contacts include L W. H. from B. G. and W J Tink among others.
A collage of 1920s Washington ads promotes clairvoyants and palmists, magnetists, and fortune tellers at various addresses including 135 Q St NW and 1836 14th St NW. Services claim insights into love, business, and personal life with readings priced down to one dollar. Also listed are cosmetic treatments, massage, and used goods buying offers, reflecting a busy classifieds page.
Advertisements offer a range of business opportunities and sales in Washington area. One half or one third partnership in a Republican newspaper with $300 investment, exchange for city property at 18th Street. Coffee business with small capital, box 367. The Joan Wedderburn Co. furniture store sale, second hand items, $350 if sold. A large bottle whisky offer, modern machinery and property with two tenant houses, $9,000 pricing. Amers notice for best public market stand at 12th and Hats NE 15 cents daily. Merchant tailor store for sale, established five years, BOX 230. Wedderburn whisky special promotions.
A compact Washington area car catalog lists Studebaker touring car for 650 dollars with overhaul and repaint guarantee from Car Motor Car Co at 1315 New York Ave. Chas E Miller & Bro advertise 15 and 18 horsepower models. Nickerson Automobile Exchange offers slightly used autos for exchange from 3160 to 3500 dollars and auto repair instruction for 25 dollars. Eighteen touring cars with liveried chauffeurs are offered for hire by MM. Loverman? Merg? Kenneally at 3802 17th St NW, with Four Ox Lines touring cars at 3 dollars per hour.
Local ads list numerous used goods from pianos and upright models to bicycles and clothing. Highlights include a Ravi Remiddsied Grand piano, various uprights in mahogany, a large Whitney upright, plus a Burroughs portable pool table and a motor boat. Also advertised are a Scott Collie dog, graphophones, sewing and typewriter bargains, clothing, jewelry, and real estate notes. Numerous box ad notices and contact details appear for prospective buyers.
Miscellaneous for sale items including eggs from Loudoun farms, incubator, typewriters, desks, dressers, chairs, tables, pine piano players, oil and gas ranges, carving tools, watches, scales, a boat launch, antique pieces, pumps, engines, and various household goods. Listing shows prices, locations in Washington DC area, and contact boxes for replies.
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