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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1908
Page
16
A long catalog of lost items and rewards appears with numerous names, items, and locations. Rewards are offered for returns of pocketbooks, shawls, watches, pins, sunglasses, and other belongings. Readable items mention locations around Washington DC and dates in July and midweek prompts for return to owners or offices.
Fragmentary text mentions post office, owners calling, identity checks, and ticket office in a Washington area, with references to a Tuesday morning event and a boulevard. The legible portions indicate a municipal or postal notice about ownership, verification steps, and addresses but specifics are unreadable.
A cluttered ad list offers Knabe baby grand and upright pianos, Kashe uprights, Weber and Steinway items, plus miscellaneous household goods. Items include a guitar, violin, a baby carriage, a phonograph, a typewriter, and various furniture pieces. Contact WM. Kenabe & Co at 1218-20 F St NW for terms. a separate ad notes Guinea pigs and Panama manuscript items.
A cluttered list of items for sale includes hats, furniture, gym gear, a phonograph, a solo gun, a map, jugs, jars, and various dining room pieces. Prices range from a few dollars to $30, with items such as a six-seat dining set, a roll-top desk, a bicycle, and a carriage rig offered by different sellers.
Miscellaneous want ads seek low prices for a year old home items including a bicycle with coaster brake a steel typewriter underwood 5 4 button 18 inches ice cream freezer garden hose record players pianos and a range all in good condition. Buyers offer top cash prices for old clothes and other items. Box numbers indicate office mail for price quotes and delivery options.
A jumble of classified style notices touts electrolysis for facial blemishes and hair, palmistry readings, and magnetic massages. It mixes services at Metzerott Building and downtown addresses with claims of permanent removal, fortune telling, loans, and cash for worn shoes and garments. The chaotic ad copy cites multiple practitioners and contact boxes.
Classifieds show a mixed set of employment pleas from a man and wife offering to work as cooks and housekeepers, a mother and daughter seeking a place as cook and maid or nurse, and various other roles including janitor porter bartender and secretary. The notices emphasize reliability experience and willingness to relocate with references available.
Classified page lists numerous job opportunities and positions. Includes printer and paper cutter work, clerical and stenography roles, porter and watchman posts, real estate and insurance office assistant, pharmacist, shoe seller, typist and stenographer, railway clerk, hotel staff, and other temporary or permanent postings with boxes for responses.</s>
A series of classified style notices from a 1920s or earlier newspaper show a young refined colored woman seeking light housework, chambermaid, waitressing, or hotel dining room work. She lists experience in hospital nursing aide and assistant roles, references and salary expectations, with addresses and contact boxes.
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