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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1909
Page
6
Classified listing of numerous items for sale and services including clothing, furniture, appliances, and personal items. Advertises cheap prices, open hours, and contact details with numerous product descriptions and partial items like gowns, coats, chairs, tables, beds, and stereos, plus a few mentions of locations and dates.
Fragmentary OCR text shows a Swedish massage reference alongside a money loan request and names like Keightley and Rbemietism. The readable items hint at a local ad or notice page, listing a telephone or address line and a request for a loan amount possibly around $200, with scattered personal names.
A bustling classified page lists miscellaneous wants and wants to purchase items across many categories. Readers seek original copies, piano, lumber, furniture, tools, horses, and even a moving picture machine setup. Trade offers, cash payments, and contact boxes appear throughout.
Classifieds show a flood of job seekers seeking any work from colored porters bellboys and waiters to chauffeurs and clerks. Many entries list ages, colors, addresses, and specific duties, with repeated offers for positions in hotels, boarding houses, or private families.
A long classified list of job and domestic help requests from a historical newspaper. Entries include cashier, bookkeeper, chambermaid, nurse, housekeeper, and general office or domestic work. Many references specify race and age, with numerous box numbers and locations in the Washington DC area. The ads showcase a mix of employment seekers offering experience and various agents seeking reliable staff.
A long mixed classified listing shows many ads from women offering at home services including sewing and dressmaking, flowist work, stenography, house cleaning, laundry, cooking, chambermaid, nursing, and child care. Names and addresses appear with various ot indeterminate postings, many targeted to daily or part time work.
Classified snippet lists diverse opportunities including a cigar store news stand for sale with $500 cash, a rooming house with multiple bedrooms, hoted rooms for rent, and investor ads offering 7 percent returns. Includes references to a famous street cafe and an old establishment for hanging entablature.
Multiple DC real estate loan offers from firms including The Harrison Realty Company Moore & Hill Inc and National Loan & Investment Co. ads promise low interest rates, fast approvals, and various loan amounts. The notices solicit salaried borrowers and advertise 5 percent to 6 percent rates with handling by local brokers.
Storage sale notice listing various horses wagons buggies carriages and autos with prices. Most items include imported carriages and saddlery gear plus cleaning and storage locations at Willard Storage and other addresses. Multiple offers emphasize reduced prices and bargains across vehicles and equipment.
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