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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1908
Page
13
Help wanted notices describe stenographers and typists with high pay. Offers include cash rewards and training, mentioning DoD demand and business college connections, plus vague listings for unrelated rooms and land shares in Forestville and other places.
A jumble of male help wanted notices seeks assistants in bookkeeping, barbering, cleaning, trucking, farm work, factory labor, and retail. Listings name locations like Washington DC area and Maryland, with contact hints and pay notes, including references to experience and reliability.
A dense page of employment notices lists diverse positions for women including dressmakers trainees, waitresses, houseworkers, laundresses, cooks, nannies, and secretarial help. Names and box numbers appear with pay, hours, and duties, from cooking and cleaning to sewing and clerical tasks, inviting applicants to respond via listed addresses.
A jumble of personals, services, and exchange notices. It lists detectives, dermatological and beauty services, astrology and palmistry, loan offers, shoe buybacks, room and board ads, exchanges for jobs, clothing, and items, plus flirtatious and matrimonial notes. Many entries include box numbers and street locations, with several requests for trades, services, or correspondence.
A jumble of classified ads seeks a patent coat promoter and a partner for vaudeville touring. Listings advertise selling or investing in barber shops dining rooms and established stores with partial contact notes like 2141 N St NW and BOX 534. Also offered one-half interest in a curio and furniture business for 2500 cash and a commercial exchange contact at 43 Munses Building.
Bates Machinery and Breigs Express advertise moving and packing of furniture baggage freight. Merchants' Transfer and Storage Co offers packing and shipping of pianos with care at 20 East Street. Breigs Express lists freight handling from 120 Hastings Avenue with phone contact.
A compact list of lost articles and rewards includes eyewear at the Patent Office area. a gold bracelet. a black purse. a tiger cat with liberal reward. a bicycle. a large white parasol. a bulldog named Marion. a pocketbook. and various other found items. Contacts are given for returns to owners or offices in Washington DC and Alexandria with rewards offered.
Classified snippet listing used goods for sale and trade offers. Items include a white Sergh tailor made suit, gray crepe de chine dress, sewing machine, pictures, a box holding 209 pounds, rubber-tired runabout, beds, bureau, wardrobe, curtains, carpet, an incubator bicycle, an iron safe, electric runabout, automobile, stove, piano, furniture, typewriter, gas range, camera plate, folding bed, scales, puncher, hunting cabin launch, gasoline launch, and related equipment with contact notes and locations around 6th to 16th streets and nearby avenues.
In a cluttered ad page a Kaabe and Kwabe pianos are offered with cases. uprights, reg. chairs, and stands listed along with other items like a rowing machine, paintings, rugs, glass plate, and various household goods. Also included are a used gasoline launch, canoes, fishing gear, a mahogany bed, and a range of small household items with prices and box numbers.
Classified ads offer furniture, sewing machines, tables, chairs, a dining set, kitchen ranges, a Singer machine, gas range, small household items, a bicycle, a Cuban poodle, a racing pigeon, a typewriter, a camera, and numerous odds and ends. Miscellany includes a Winton automobile, a boilerplate of livestock and pets, and various sale inquiries with contact boxes.
A jumble of classified ads seeking a small hot air furnace, moving bicycle outfit, tennis racquet and net, a high grade car, exchange of building lots, a 8 day wall clock, radio parts, pets including a black pug and a greyhound, a pool table, furniture for a four room flat, a boat, camera gear, a revolver, gasoline launches, a wind-up typewriter, and various services and jobs. Many items priced, with boxes for contact and viewing after hours.
Advertisement offers wallpaper services by W. V. Mahoney and Nolte. Includes 60 percent off, samples, estimates, and a presst worth 85 dollars allegedly free for each person bringing the ad. Claims exclusive designs at rock bottom prices and mentions a small profits approach.
Advertises a new treatment for rheumatism consumption lung throat diseases and female complaints. Promises cure in every case by an eminent physician and surgeon with specialists on X rays and gases. Free examination and medicine. Office hours 9 to 5:30 Read Central Office location in Northwest.
Situation wanted ads from a Washington area paper offer male accountants bookkeepers clerks bartenders drivers and other labor positions. Entries note varied races, ages, and locations with BOX references and contact details. Strong entities include A R WARD Lewis Smith William Butler George Scoot and Harry Inglesart among others seeking work or placement across offices kitchens driving and trades.
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