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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1908
Page
20
Fragmentary ad copy mentions agents needed and tea powder sales. Readers are left with unclear offers and scattered phrases. The readable items include a vague call for agents and a sales pitch about tea powder products in a Washington context.
Readable lines show numerous classified ads for domestic workers and shop staff. Entries seek first class pressers, seamstresses, sales clerks, waitresses, maids, cooks, housekeepers, porters, and general help with various locations in Washington area era listings. Multiple box numbers indicate mailed responses.
Classifieds list numerous help wanted notices for general housework cooks maids and kitchen staff. Ads specify ages from 14 to 18 for helpers and many with the need for references and residency in Washington DC areas including St northwest and Columbia Road. Several entries seek experienced stenographers typists and office clerks with mentions of specific streets and employers.
The ad list details numerous rewards for missing dogs including a Boston Bull Pup with a stub tail and a Yorkshire Terrier named Fan. It also lists watches, pins, eyeglasses, a purse, a diamond brooch, a gold locket, and other items with contact notes and reward offers across Washington addresses such as 117 Q St NW and 1410 L St NW, among others. The notices specify locations like Capitol grounds and various streets, asking returns to offices, hotels, or private addresses with monetary rewards.
A report notes that 800 boxes of Rengo substance were received at Affleck's Drug Store located at 4020 Pa. The short item records distribution activity and store engagement.
Public police notice lists lost items found in Washington area including a lady's belt with buckle, cuff links, black fan, scarf, breastpin, leather gloves, a doll, a key ring with nine keys, and an auto. Items were found around 15th Street near Massachusetts Avenue and 601 ath Street. owners urged to identify items at Capitol Police Office and respond to FP 0 Box 262.
A crowded personal ads page markets electrolysis for hair removal and a palm reading practice by MR DAoud with testimonials from a clergyman and society leader. It promotes accuracy in character insights and life advice for a dollar, listing studio contact details and hours. It also includes manicuring services, a villa for exchange of garments, and a furniture bargain push from JUSTH'S OLD STARD, with prices, terms, and a plea to compare with the Famous.
A collage of odds and ends from a newspaper page offers notices and ads for clairvoyants palmists and psychics including Mme Mita Evelyn Pete and the world s greatest clairvoyant De Laine plus services such as scientific magnetic massage and manicurist specials. Other entries advertise cash for discarded clothing and a bottled in bond whisky price list. Contact details include 723 Sth Ave NW 14th St NW 610 F St NW and 1208 7th St NW with phone numbers North 409 M 47 and North 175.
A crowded classified page offers investments and sales including a moving box sale in Washington Pa avenue area, a restaurant for sale in a shopping district, a first class barber shop for rent, grooming parlors and a photo studio for sale, a Republican newspaper stake exchange, bottled whisky, dairy and grocery business for sale, and several storage and furniture ad offers.
Rambles of goods offered in a cluttered classified page include pianos upright mahogany and grand, antique vanity and dressers, beds, chairs, and a variety of household items. Also listed are cameras, optics, phonographs, bikes, a folding Kodak, a go cart, and several small furnishings with prices and contact notes scattered amid portraits of livestock and farm items.
A crowded classified page lists numerous items for sale and trade including a folding bed with mirror, a cherry parlor suit, an upright mahogany piano, a white toy poodle, a porcelain lined refrigerator, a mandolin, a canoe waders, and a gas range. Also advertised are clothes, furniture, bicycles, books, dog kennels, and a gasoline launch. Contact details and box numbers appear for several listings.
A fragmented page of classified notices lists items for sale and offers. Entries include a nan o player and ness0 goods, camera equipment, grinders, recording devices, jewelry, furniture, stationary lectures, sewing tables, enamel graphophone with records, a typewriter, and a conservatory guitar. Prices range from low to mid-range, with contact details and box references for the newspaper office.
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