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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1921
Page
8
The notice details posting rates at three cents a word with a 30 cent minimum, and requires receipts for refunds. It warns that non consecutive advertisements incur four cents per word and restricts submissions after 10 pm for the next day’s issue. It cites deadlines for Saturday and Sunday classifications.
National Personnel Service Bureau and Interstate Service Bureau advertise vacancies for pressmen canvassers and clerical staff. Listings include contract work hourly pay, salesmen with commissions, payroll work, housekeepers, stenographers, and a variety of hotel and domestic positions. Multiple box numbers and street addresses provided for applicants.
A cluster of classified notices includes multiple help wanted ads for females and young women seeking domestic help and waitresses in Washington DC. Additional copy promotes chiropractic, osteopathy, and physiotherapy education with classes forming at Riley School of Chiropractic located on F street.
Advertisements seek three salesmen to replace promoted staff and announce multiple help wanted roles in cooking, clerical, chauffeurs, and domestic work. Also notices for lost items, pets, clothing, furniture, musical gear, and pet stock with reward offers and contact details across Washington areas.
A dense Washington Post style classified listing features various misc items for sale and wanted. It includes underwood typewriters and other makes at about $1, sections for clothing corsets and hosiery, window shades, an Oriental rug for $500, furniture buys and sales, used books and dictionaries, gold and jewelry buyers, and several car ads with prices and terms. It also notes furniture and cash offers, and a hotel style rental section.
Special Cable Dispatch reports English Christmas tables short of turkey due to a rush of birds to the American market and reduced British supply from France and Ireland. Prices swung from 20 cents a pound to five dollars, with geese and ducks also scarce. Mrs. Anna McCudden, honored war mother, returned home with her daughter Kathleen after wreathing the unknown American soldier, praised by Hi Lipton for arranging a welcome.
Thames Lawrence, 25, colored, of 903 Fourth Street NW, was shot five times with a -88 caliber revolver and walked to emergency hospital where doctors hold little hope for his recovery. Police say Lawrence and Bernardi Levan, 24, colored of 529 New Jersey Ave NW, argued at Fourth and K Streets NW. Levan was arrested by Sixth precinct officers and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, being held without bond pending Lawrence's condition.
George Roscoe a colored man was sentenced to six months in jail and fined 35 dollars by Judge Hardison on charges of carrying a razor drunkenness and disorderly conduct He followed a young woman for several blocks Sunday night and insulted her Police say the prisoner had a razor in his coat pocket at arrest
Suburban Rockville hosted the annual Christmas holiday ball at Montgomery Country Club with guests from across the county and beyond. Christine Keithley and Joseph Catonia of Washington were married Saturday afternoon at Rev. Harmon Jr.’s home. Dana King, Frank Owens, and George Owens, Beallsville residents, face assault charges after an incident with Charles Busey. Busey suffered a fractured skull and heavy injuries and was hospitalized.
Thomas R. Ball of 1242 Good Hapa road and James Anderson of 217 W street southwest were each fined 16 dollars yesterday by Police Judge McMahon on speeding charges. Both were arrested Christmas day by Policeman Willard Vaughn.
Travel notice announces sailings every eighteen days from Pier 33 Brooklyn to Los Angeles and San Francisco aboard S S Venezuela February 8 S S Santa Ana February 25 S S Ecuador March 11. Cruises include Panama Canal sightseeing with calls at Havana Balbos Acajutia Libertad Manzanillo and more. Thirty days of rest aboard. For information contact steamship tourist agents or railroad agents.
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