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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1908
Page
4
Salesmen sought by Arthur Rosenberg & Co in New York for commission and expense coverage. Position requires strong client research and travel. Apply to ARTHUR ROSENBERG & CO., New York City office for details.
Help wanted notices show a strong demand for stenographers with permanent positions in a business world. Promotions offer cash rewards for referrals, with salaries and training advertised by DRAUGHON COLLEGE and STEMOGRAPHIC ACADEMY. Listings seek skilled typists, pastry cooks, chambermaids, and civil service teachers, with box addresses and location details.
Classified help wanted notices show barber jobs in Arlington and D C areas with wages around eight dollars weekly and first class pay. Other listings call for a bartender, a boy for office work, a laundry helper, real estate helper, cooks, clerks, and various shop and farm tasks, with contact boxes and addresses in DC suburbs and nearby towns.
Classified listings show male and female help wanted, from office boys and chauffeurs to cooks, maids, and salesclerks. Employers seek White or colored workers, with various ages and skills, offering wages, training, or jobs at Woodward Lothrop and other local firms.
Classified notices for waitresses and domestic help from an era’s classifieds list many positions. Listings include experienced waitresses, a colored girl, white and Black applicants, housekeepers, cooks, and other household staff with ages, locations such as Washington DC areas and neighboring suburbs, and pay details or none. Several notices request references, directions to apply, or post office boxes for responses.
Money wanted for a reliable private party seeks a loan of 1000 dollars for two years at seven percent interest. Collateral offered includes 1500 dollars in old silverware and two life insurance policies valued at 31 009 and 42 years old. Reliable, this office.
The notice row features readers and services from Mr Daoud the palmist and Mme De Laine a clairvoyant, offering life readings, love and business insights, electrolysis for blemishes, massages, and occult money loans. Several ads promise quick fortunes, electrolysis, and personal consultations from multiple providers.
A jumble of classified style items offering exchanges for city property and various clerical positions. Entries mention a country home near West Falls Church, steno and clerk exchanges in Treasury, Interior, and Commerce departments, and requests for equipment or room in exchange for services. Several boxes note exchange offers and addresses for responses.
Large assortment of horses and carriages from Willard Storage to Speedway Stables. Offers include around twenty horses grazing on pine grass and clover with spring water, prices from 2.50 to 7.50 per head, plus a fine driving mare and a range of brake, phaeton, brougham, and cart vessels. Also listed are working mules, rare wagons, harness, saddles, and other equine equipment. See Collins Culpeper Johns for specifics and inspection.
Mixed urban classifieds list hobbies pets furniture instruments bicycles and small engines. Names like Mr Croft Ames place and The Cecil appear with items such as parrot birds, roses, violins, sewing machines, beds, pianos, bicycles, and runabouts offered for cash or trade.
Thursday ads seek various items including furniture, a dining room set, a fishing rod, a parrot cage, a sewing machine, a washing machine and buggy, a gas stove, a portable office building, rifles, a piano, a duplicator, a lawn mower, and a gasoline launch. Also requests for renting space, a typewriter, and farm dog details, with box references and contact hints.
The ad list spans many items for sale including a soda fountain, a handsome oak cabinet, pigeons, Jersey cow, dining room furniture, a banjo, steam radiator, stove, wardrobe, iron bed, packing crates, and a piano plus vocal artist portraits. Prices range from small cheap offers to mid hundreds, with contact notes and times for viewing. The notices mention multiple local streets and establishments and urge quick sale.
Multiple small ads present a batch of businesses for sale including a rooming house saloon and cigar stand. Items mention equity in a suburban place, California wines, a furniture elevator business, and a storm curtain support patent. Also listed are a Sanitary Carpet Co sale, and a North West port cigar and new stand with book and reception details.
A dense lot of classified ads seeking male help mostly for hotel kitchen work cashier and clerical roles. Listings include cooks bartenders bookkeepers clerks janitors drivers and other labor with varying experience and pay, many offering BOX office references.
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