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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1908
Page
9
A garbled column of classified notices seeks various items and services. Buyers bid on secondhand furniture, bicycles, motors, generators, electric appliances, wagons, and a range of equipment while sellers offer dressers, dining tables, beds, rugs, and tools. Contact box numbers and offices are listed for responses.
Extensive sale ads list wagons carriages and harness from Willard Storage and Rex Stables. Includes runabouts victorias broughams harness saddles and two automobiles. Prices stated for several items sum various horse drawn vehicles available for hire or sale near Mt Pleasant Stables and Speedway.
Classified maid and home help ads from a historical newspaper segment. Listings include sought positions for housework, cooking, chambermaids, companion, nurse, and general servants. Also male roles: driver, steward, barber, clerk, bookkeeper, painter, machinist, and farm help. Numerous boxes reference contact mailings and addresses for reply.
Classifieds show a long list of roles seeking female help including housekeeping maids nurses waitresses and stenographers. Many entries specify color racial notes and city addresses with BOX numbers and street listings as contact points for positions ranging from care for the elderly to office work and travel companions.
A jumble of classified ads offering services and exchanges including washing and laundering, private tutors, office work, apprenticeships, furniture and instrument trades, animal placements, music lessons, and vehicle or property exchanges. Readers are invited to respond by box number and address. the notices list occupations, items for exchange, and contact boxes.
A line of lightly used electric and gasoline cars priced from 200 to 2000. Listings include Electrics such as One Baker Runabout and Three Waverly Runabouts, Gasoline Runabouts like One Pierce Arrow, One Buick 22 horsepower Touring Car and others. Also Elmore's seven moving parts Elmera two cycle valveless touring car priced at 1750 plus second hand autos and ads for Dow Bonded inflation inner tubes.
A series of car sale notices and service offers from Washington area dealers. Listings include a 28 for sale gasoline runabout in good condition with easy terms, a 4 cylinder limousine described as new and rare, and an electric delivery wagon in excellent condition. Also advertised are FORD cars, tires, repair services, a garage and hire fleet, with contact addresses and box numbers for responses.
Storage furniture piano and household goods advertised at 1321 F street northwest with rates per load per carriages pianos and barrels. Separate rooms available private locked compartments and moderate charges. Moving parking and shipping offered by Little Field Alvord & Co in the Colorado Building. Rengo recently received 500 boxes and Affleck's Drug Store listed with prices and items.
Classified advertisement from Edward Hoffman at 1709 Atth St. NW, offering first class wallpaper hanging and painting with reasonable price estimates and a North 730 phone listing. Also notes Nolte at 907 11th St. SW offering exclusive designs at bottom prices with small profits.
Numerous listings offer fur rooms and front rooms across Washington areas NW NE and SE. Options include private baths, hot water, breakfast, light housekeeping, telephones, and summer or monthly rates. Locations include 1220 N St NW 317 F St NW 12th St NW 17 317 F St NW and many others with varying rents and terms.
Multiple listings describe neatly furnished rooms in diverse NW addresses near Union Station, Capitol, and government offices. Rents range from $2 to $18 monthly with bath and board options, front or bay-window rooms, some with private family or housekeeping use, and proximity to car lines and parks. Names, streets, and building notes appear throughout.
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