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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1908
Page
26
Job listing seeks salesmen offering two months' commission and expenses. Arthur Rosenberg & Co., An trust, New York City.
Classified brief notes a surge in demand for skilled stenographers. Includes offers of permanent positions, cash rewards for referrals, multiple job lines from DRAUGHON JOLLEGE and other firms, plus varied roles like pastry cook and chambermaid. Addresses and box numbers listed for applications.
Fragmented help wanted items show barber, bartender, office, sales, and teaching roles. Notices invite applicants with wheel, living area, and strict requirements, listing boxes and offices for responses in Arlington, Virginia, and Washington DC area.
Numerous local job notices include male and female help wanted, ranging from office boy, porter, waiter, chauffeur, to housework and laundress roles. Listings specify race and age preferences, locations such as Northwest Washington, and box numbers for responses. several clerical and stenography positions call for experienced candidates.
A jumble of help wanted notices lists waitresses and domestic workers sought in Washington and nearby areas. ads reference positions at restaurants, homes, and hotels, with varied ages, ethnicities, pay, and hours, plus items found or lost and a few reward notices.
An advertisement seeks a reliable party to lend $1,000 for two years at 7 percent annual interest. Collateral offered includes $1,500 in old family silverware and two life insurance policies ages 31 and 42.
A jumble of personal notices promotes Mr Daoud the palmist and astrologers, beauty and electrolysis services, and money loan offers. Listings include a palmistry office at 2823 Q St NW, starographers, masages, electrolysis for blemishes, and psychic readers with contact BOX numbers.
A flood of classified items includes exchanges for land and a country home near Washington with barn and poultry houses, plus multiple stenography and clerk position swaps across Treasury, Post Office, and Agricultural departments. Other ads offer a Minnesota Avenue lot, a folding bed, an electric fan, and a wealth of miscellaneous trades with specific boxes for responses.
Listings from Willard Storage, Speedway Stables, and others offer about twenty horses for grazing and driving stock from $2.50 to $7.50 per head. Also advertised are working mules in good condition, fine driving mares and runabouts, Brewster and other carriages, and harnesses. Viewing at Willard Storage Office and Speedway Stables with multiple items including buggies and wagons.
Classified notice listing tools, furniture, small appliances, a piano, bicycles, a boat, a variety of pets including pigeons and dogs, plus clothing and misc. items. Includes contact cues and location hints across many DC addresses and apartment numbers, indicating a bustling urban market of secondhand wares.
Classified list of multiple wants from a busy ad page including furniture like dining sets, wardrobes, bedsteads, and a big assortment of misc items. Requests cover house needs, equipment, pets, vehicles, and services with box numbers and locations in Washington area. Specifics include English dogs, parrot cages, tools, sewing machines, gas stoves, and secondhand items for sale or barter.
Numerous items offered for sale include a wide range from a WIDe set of goods to a Jersey cow and milker, dining room furniture, a hand carved oak cabinet, a banjo, a steam radiator, a robe and mirror, a coal stove, a single wardroBe with glass door, iron folding bed, a music piano and vocal artists' sitter, a seated carriage and pigeons. Prices and contact details given.
A collage of classified style notices showing businesses for sale including a saloon, a rooming and boarding house, a patently old fashioned storefront, and various small-time trades. Listings mention equity values, exchange options, and contact box numbers with scattered OCR errors.
Male assistant cook hotel or lynch room by experienced man seeks work. Also bartender hotel clerk bookkeeper positions offered by various employers. many listings show long experience, references, and box numbers for responses. Locations include downtown offices and apartment buildings with a mix of white and colored applicants seeking steady wages.
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