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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1908
Page
12
fragmentary OCR text appears to offer a generic sales pitch and recruitment notice mentioning Washington readers and a tea powder product. The readable parts include vague promises of supply and an agents wanted line, but no clear event or names to anchor a fuller summary.
A block of job ads seeking pressers, clerks, sales, chauffeurs, maids, cooks, nannies, and other household and shop roles. Listings request experienced workers, young entrants, and various shifts with pay details and box numbers for responses. Many specify color or gender instructions typical of the era.
Classified ads show numerous general housework and maid positions in Washington DC. Listings seek reliable women and girls of various ages for cooking washing ironing and night stays in families ranging from two to three adults, with references required and wages noted. Some ads call for color workers and bilingual capabilities with emphasis on housekeeping duties and light domestic tasks.
A garbled Washington Post OCR list offers rewards for a Boston Bull Pup, a Yorkshire Terrier named Fan, a Black Spotted Fox Terrier, a gold breastpin center, a gold locket with monogram, a purse with $18, eyeglasses, a gold watch, a diamond brooch, two gold pins, and a貴 scattered items. The notices request return to various addresses and offices around Washington DC, with liberal rewards and contact points at multiple local firms and buildings.
Affleck's Drug Store at 4020 Pa receives 800 boxes of Rengo Subt, with age noted in the delivery records.
Police report at the Capitol Police Office calling owners to identify recovered items including a lady’s belt gloves scarf fan breastpin, a key ring containing nine keys, a silk waist item found in an alley near Massachusetts Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets, and other personal effects. Owners urged to call at 601 ath st and identify items, with contact for a home near Chevy Chase.
A collage of short notices advertises electrolysis for hair removal, palmistry by Mr Daoud with claimed accuracy, cheap fashion buys at The Famous, manicure services, and a mix of oddities. Promotions claim financial help, credit terms, and spiritual guidance, with various addresses and hours noted.
Multiple listings claim clairvoyants palmist astrologer and psychics offering readings and prophecies at various addresses including 723 Sth and 14th streets with fees from 10 cents to $5. Also ads promise magnetic massage manicures and buyback of discarded clothing with contact details and hours, in a mixed classified page.
Antique style classifieds advertise investments, business opportunities, and services. Items include a moving box sale, a restaurant for sale, a barber shop for rent, a shampooing parlors listing, a photo studio for sale, a newspaper exchange, bottled whisky, dairy and grocery business, market stands, tailor store for sale, whisky promotions, storage and moving services, hat making and millinery ads, cleaning and pressing services, and a furniture purchase offer. Many entries include box numbers and contact notes.
A cluttered sale page lists uprights pianos including Mahogany and Whitney brands, various household furniture, gas ranges, beds, bureaus, chests, a rolling chair, bicycles, a variety of small goods, cameras, frames, and yard items. Also advertised are real and mining stock stamps, oddities, clothing, and an assortment of secondhand items with prices and contact notes.
A jumble of items for sale and trade appears including 2D-HAND items, furniture, pets, musical instruments, bicycles, a canoe, a gas range, a refr igerator, a piano, a violin, a canary, and more. Listings show contact notes and prices, with several boxes and mail ads, and some garden or room fixtures.
Numerous small ads offer deals on a nano player, nessogreat sacri fee, cameras, diamond rings, watches, whisky, armor, and sewing tables. Listings mention locations around 7 new will all, 3233 Bth st aw, 1223 ath rt aw, and 616 F st aw, with prices from $1 to several dollars and sale windows mainly afternoons and evenings. The page also advertises a throne of goods including typewriters, a graphophone, a sewing table, and a conservatory guitar, plus a collector’s kit and a Jamestown Exposition hunches set.
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