Help Wanted Competent Stenographers Sought in 19th Century Ad
Classified ad fragment offers permanent yard positions and cash rewards for finding stenographers. Mentions DoD references, salaries around cash payments, and multiple business schools advertising stenography and typing courses. Includes vague location hints and contact lines with distorted spellings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tyreten
Business World
Cetatarne D. Aughon
Practical Business College
Spencerian
Avadoms of Music
Dsts
Pompetnat
Pinan Lanham Paioes Gregg
Wate Systems Tought
Help Wanted Listings in Prime Retail and Trades
A wide array of classified ads seek male applicants for assistant bookkeeping, barber, warehouse, driver, and various skilled or general labor roles. Notable postings include warehouse clerk in Washington DC area, general shop and factory help, and managerial or supervisory positions requiring reliability, experience, and basic trades knowledge. Most listings specify immediate openings with hourly wages or weekly pay, and several call for experienced workers or references.
Classified help wanted notes from a late 19th to mid 20th era ad page
A dense, era-specific labor ad page listing numerous positions for women including dressmakers apprentices, chambermaids, houseworkers, waitresses, cooks, launderers, and sales roles. Many entries indicate age, race, wages, and living arrangements, with a few workers sought for household and domestic tasks.
Personal ads and services in a cluttered Washington listing
A dense shopper style column advertises detective services, dermatology and beauty, fortune tellers, and matchmaking. It mixes private consultations, home phone contacts, and exchanges of goods and services with notices for loans and shifts in employment, all in a period voice.
Promoter wanted for patent coat venture in Washington
Classified notes offer a promoter for a patent coat venture at 2141 N St NW. Also listings for sale and partnership in bars, dining room, and a curio furniture business. A young vaudeville actress seeks a partner for travel and investment. contact Johnstone at 1204 H St NW.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bic
Melvale
Curio
Jose Box
Indy
Farone
England
Johnstone
H Street
Washington, D.C
Merchants' Transfer and Storage Co moves furniture and freight
Bates Machinery offers moving and packing services at 20 East Ownd Street with phone line. Breigs Express at 12 Hastings Street provides freight handling and piano moving with careful packing and shipping by car specialty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BATES
Transfer and Storage Co
Eat
Fianos
Breigs Express
Lost and found notices from The Washington Post
A long Lost and Found list including items like gold bracelets spectacles purses wallets keys and a bulldog with rewards offered. Items were reported near locations such as Lith and Euclid, Pa Ave, and various addresses in Washington DC with owners asked to contact the paper or specific offices for return and reward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ALTO
Uth
J. P. Ston
MN. Soley
Mass
Marion
C. S. Cooley
Luna Park
Inax
Shaby
Llady
Perazel
Tien
Ofica
36Th
M Mts
Georgetown
Chesapeake Junction
Cailane
Miscellaneous for sale from city classifieds
Mixed ads list suit and dress for sale at addresses 1313 Park rd and 1207 11th st, sewing machine, pictures, box holding 209 pounds, bicycle and parts, an iron safe, automotives and runabouts, furniture including piano antique and parlor suite, Remington typewriter, gas range, camera, folding bed, scales, and a hunting cabin launch. Boxes 61 and office. Early 1900s classified tone with various prices and conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park Rd
Jace
Ind
Lg Post
11Th St
Call Lauman's
BAKER
Garagh
Ohip
Call Bet
16Th St
Stulta & Rauber
Brunswick
St. Nw
Nce
Remington KO
Bpmotes
Eng
Pay & Bowen
PADDED ADS FOR FURNITURE AND PIANOS IN WASH DC MARKET
Numerous listings detail Kaabe and Kwabe pianos with cases, uprights, and prices around 500 to 3750 dollars, plus various household goods. Also advertised are a rowing machine, paintings, an antique mahogany clock, a blue-stone slab, a canoe, a gas range, a bath of brussels rugs, and other sale items with contact Box 678 and local street addresses in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knabe & GO
Erred Xitcren
Toe Goodwin
Tay Park
Gaur
Whit Gel
Tor Yao
Oldtown
Washington
Balai
BUX
Tius
Diverse Classified Ads Offerings At Palats Cafe Area
A flood of local ads lists furniture, sewing machines, a Singer drop head, dining tables, sideboards, beds, clocks, rugs, a large variety of household items, plus a 15th street NW poodle for sale. Items include a 20 by 15 inch printing press, a dining table folding cot, a Singer sewing machine, a General purpose stove, a 5X3 camera, a Hamilton clock, a range of birds and dogs, and a Winton automobile for quick sale. Also listed are multiple typewriters including Smith Premier and Underwood, a 2-iron bed set, and a 3 foot showcase. Prices range from $1 to $75, with contact addresses in NW and SW Washington.
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Gordon Printing Press
Lange
Call Palats Cafe
Yornana
Singer
BAKER
Obia Ave
Ave
Ohcs
15Th St
C. Garner
Fiat
West
Physicians Library
Rochester Optical CO
Lincoln
Toll Craft
Luna Fark
American Engyglopedia
Thomas Dobson
South Second Street
Philadelphia
Samuel Fitzhugh
Fredericksburg
N. J. _ave
Oregon
Tab St. Nw
Isine
Welock
Mt. Pleasans
Hell
ST. Bernard
National Cash Register
Affleck’s
Ta&able
St. Ow
Smith Premier
Nerus Underwood Typewriter
TYPEWRITER_SMITH
North Remington Typewriter
Prospect Ave
Otto
St. Nw
St. Sc
Wheeler & Wilson
St. Ne
Tait
Washington
Baltimore
Belmont Rt
Columbian Road
N.Y. Ave
F. Miller
Potomac Boathouse
Georgetown
7Th St
Monroe St Mvy
W. S Hants
Yoth St
Hyattsville
Rumingson Typewriter
Corintman Yacht
CLU
Mt. Vernon
Winton
ST. Ty
Mags Ave
Miscellaneous Want Ads for Household Goods and Pets
A broad classified list offers items for sale or trade including a small hot air furnace gram latrors in grand order with price, moving bicycle outfit, tennis racket and net, a car in high grade condition with cash exchange, a 8 day wall clock, a dog and a bulldog, a home for a black puffy, a country watchdog, pool table, complete furniture for a four room flat, a sailboat and launch, a camera and a revolver in good order, a materinity coat, a gas stove, a typewriter, a piano, a dog hither and bur, and multiple miscellaneous requests and offers with box numbers for contact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arlington
CHE
SiGes
Dinimet
Bouisians
Ian
Harrigon
Bos Mass Ave
R. Defur
Interstate Commission
McGuirg
St. Aw
M. Md
Parte
Werda
Mra Nettie Keene
Capitol St
M. J
Walter
A. L. Watson
Rosslyn
Mit
C. Haver
Roy Complet
Itis
Areca
Virginia
Hveng Glome
Orleans
Surrey
Ave Nw
American Salvation Army
ORB
Roy
G. KR
Rossiyn
Mazo Bros
Steinberg
N. Louis Abrahams
Wallpaper Rooms Papered by Mahoney and Nolte Ad
An old classified ad promoting wallpaper services, featuring W. V. Mahoney and Nolte. Offers 60 percent discount, free samples and estimates by mail or phone. Claims exclusive designs at low prices and notes a press worth 85 dollars with a free gift during the sale. Includes address hints and sample request instructions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. V. Mahoney
NOLTE
Tith
New Medical Treatment Claims Cure All Diseases
An advertisement promises a universal cure for chronic diseases including rheumatism consumption lung and throat ailments and nervous disorders. It claims to provide examination by an eminent physician and surgeon with specialists in gases and medicine hours from 9 to 5 30 and offices in a northwest location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N.e
Classified help wanted page full of varied employment ads
A dense mix of job-seeker notes and requests from a 20th century classified column. Listings feature men seeking work such as bookkeepers, clerks, bartenders, drivers, janitors, and cooks, including several colored applicants and white workers. Also noted are trades like carpenter, electrician, machinist, and painter with brief credentials and box references for responses.
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Monard Ave
Anacostia
Charles Doyle
Walls Court Ne
Fred
Lasoren
Alabanese Dox
Binnie
Country Place
Grorgh Bartin
D. C
Gentess High School
Witteman
Ot Doe
GR. Cannon
Rice Si
Columbia
Peter
Lewis
Lincoln
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the Post
Roe
King’s Pharmacy
Vermont Ave
T St
Astoria
Joseph W. Sanford
N. Cap
N.Y
Koss
Florida Ave
Mendota
20Th St
Kalorama Ave
Whitealde & Walton
Lioyd T. Tayloe
O'Donnell's
O'Donnell
Statford’s
Yih
Weller
Sth
Richardson
Etth Sr
Lalfryoung
M J. Dorgriine
Bo St
NJ Ave
Shom Scullz Bros
Staat
Dirty Bork
M. Key
Shiner -Uxporiencee
Harvard Gats Dry Co
Cuevator Contitor
Mn- Whith
Max
Severn Stock Farm
Elty
GEO
Lamarst Hyattsville
Ceed
Theodore Webell
Vt Glover
Tentow Road
Tmiuai
Balto Life Ins
Multh St
14Th St Nw
Ames
Pouce
Witq
Pleasant Welles Park
Huntevile
MR. Hunt
Vernon Pakery
Erhes Espeee
Ena
Dalang
Lantz
Este
Bureau of Engraving
Grarpton& Son
Baleshen
Esho
Lat St
Ganvassers
Gould Yuen Cen
Xistu. Nickerson Agto Exchange
TSENG
Harvard St
Smith
Woodward & Lothrop
Wesswong
Sauderilie
Ganeer
Wallach
Delaware Ave
Finst-Clase
Raveitch
Ountey
Concord
G St
Tarstly
Wousework
Goman
Tara Pass
Sterting
Calvert St
Ceshaal Nousework
Gexgrad
Fermiy
Tren Sr
Tair
Ingleid Ferrane
Cor
Lsth
Menton
Columbia Road
Newton St
Adar
Elsapeth
Sia
Kenyon St
Harvard
Td Defrees
Tasler
Petworth
D.C
Muther
Florence Eare
Godarness
Germany
Tolman Laundey
Staong
Cory
Rory Sqn
Bos Ansasy
9Th St
Remington
Young
Jedy
7Th St. Nw
Seheends
27Th ST. NW
China
Phil. Keng
King’s Palace
Bradford
Titan
St. M. W
Teharow
Mib
Matthewrs
Metzerott
Miss Goodwin
Wito
Frese
Tor $Nat
Mme
DE Lal
Palmint
al- Wasa
BO Celtie
Atwell
Luis
Justh
Philip P. Maguire
Dagud
Q St
St. Se
Furnitori
Postoffice
Young Lady
Emia
X.Y. Ave
E. D
Nettie Keene
Waltham
Centleman
standard _typewriter
Nis
War Department
18Th St Nw
Customs Service
New York
Treasury Dept
Interstate Commercial Institute, Inc
Loth St. Aw
C. Schmt
Weschler
The
Washington Post
Bac Post
Euclidsta
Txst
Mann's
Mongey
Metrogentien Bank
Bain
Es Gate
Congressional Library
St, Ow
Pa “Ave
Dith St
H’ St. Ow
Metropolitan
Bani
Potomac
Northumberland
Langdon
Alexandria
Nein Fost
Ist
Vic
Cry of Patent Office
Pinder
P.O
Jth St
Sanday
William Stickman
Choye Chase
Hucvard
Ton Desk
BET
Chesapeake Beach
Misa Jenkins
Mekman
St. Ae
Bilgs
Brt
Chrispeske Junction
M St
Cunberland Apt House
C. Callan
Capitol Sts
Alsahe Kladly Selum
E. Capitol
Lafeyette Park
McGill
St.ow
Lusby
EK Capitol
Eastern Star
WITS
Dora Vpkc
Plese
ALICE
Persia
Kann
Iuficream
Betwen
Renadaf
Iad
Koabe
Hallet & Davis
Smith & Hares
Fardmusn
Brookland
Norgedn
Cam de Boe
Luabevaod
Ioalhouse
We To
Boston
Giamonds
Gentlman
Lacy
Tal- Wlais
Bord Bidges
Smith Remier
San Be Secon
Grocery Guild
Sthang
Glas
Go-Gart
Lytton
Lot Harty
Inis Oftee
Eureka
Will Caell
Proton
Aura Stowe
Posston
Willard Bt
Ust
J. E. Fowler
Courreta
Grinder
Muncey
Sddvss
Ontario Road
Algo
Wcarthy
Bladengburg
Armida
Joe Bell
Stover
George Evans
Fischer Square
Tony
Fossiyn
Vaid
Stearns
Vaughan
Frice
Cleveland
Ledroit Automobile CO
Fla Ave
North St. Maxwell
Toledo
WBA
CARL
Tribune Burnabolt
Baker Electric
Lester D. Moore, Jr
14Th St
Chas. E. Miller & Bro
Auto Livery
Washingon
Pightesn
Tivertad Cheuffeura
Willard, Raleigh, and Shepeham
Zimmerman & Kenneally
17Th St
EF Miller & Bro
Mt. Nw
Washington Agente
Ees
Satenio
B. J. Quisengerry & CO
Panbase
Blancerd
A. R. W. Ward
Statlon G
William Butler
George Scoot
Harry Tglesart
BARGE
Das
Tts
Offic
S. A
Butler
Flarce Place
Newport P
Strois
George Woon
Delaware
WM. H Burger
Webe
AL Brown
Huffman
Garrett “Park
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