The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-17
THE PEOPLES WANTS.
they Are Filled Through the
acknowledgement
slc RETURNS FOR a QUARTER.
e,tu.tions and Help Found. Property
Boaght and Sold Through the
Popular Medium.
slc RETURNS FOR a QUARTER

The Wants of the people are many and
a. agency that fills them is naturally pop
ulss with the people
The Posr- INTELLIGEycER Is the peoples
want exchange. 1t is the great employ
..sut agency of the Northwest and thou
s.nds make requisirion upon its columns.
During the week just closed over eigh-
IN hundred persons told their wants
a,ourh the aWant ad" columns Of the
Pce7-IxrELLIGEScER-
several thousand letters were received at
IL publication office in reply.
One advertisement brought forth lis let
~ In one day.
This Is not an isolated case.
Here is sample:
try SCANDINAVIAN GIRL
M wants situation In . small family;
~.shiug will not be done. Address Marie,
/ acknowledgement office.
Forty-one letters were received In answer
q s this announcement, costing only 40
muts before noon OF the day of its publ
eation. In other words, the advertiser had
& lbe PICK Of forty-one situations. She took
{ he best and is happy.
4 sfenographer arrived here from the
East . few days ago. He had but fifty
ants in his pockets. Thirty-fve cents be
nent in making known his want, /" viz,
situstion, through the medium of the
Pos7-IxrELLIeEscER. Before noon of the
& foIlowing day he was installed in an Office,
1rswing . good salary, and knew of .
dozen other places he could accept should
y want them. All this through 35-cent
&ant I'D.
III. John Cort few days ago inserted
want I'd, announcing that he wished to
Engage stenoarapher. 1t was put in for
four days. At the end of the first day
after its publication, he sent word to the
Poer-IxrELLiGENcER that the advertise
ment must come out at once.
II am besieged with applications" he
uaid. "Since this morning over thirty
ntsnographers, who saw the advertisement,
have applied for the situation. | have en-
rseed one, and am more than satisfied
With the success OF my advertisement"
The rule works both ways. Those who
want employment can find it and those
Who want employees can find them through
To medium of the PosT-INTELLIGExCER
want columns.
gentleman recently lost q valuable gold
watch. A 25-cent want ad brought it
back to him at 8 O'Clock in the morning.
An honest young man picked up a
pocketbook containing papers on the street
! BE advertised his find in the PosT- IKrELLI-
EsUcER and the owner rewarded him with
|Ea
People come to town and want rooms.
they advertise in the Posi-
md they are put on the track of desirable
Femises.
People have rooms to rent. They adj
urtise in the PosT- INTELLIGENcER's want
- and they have no end of applications
kpm desirable tenants.
Hundreds of PosT-IHrELLIGENcERs are
Nd to those who have no other interest in
Newspaper than reading the want ads.
Property is sold through the want ads.
Catchy bargains can be told of in line.
BIS the cheapest and best way of adver-
j dang.
Occasionally romance springs up in the
I've columns devoted to wants. Last week
3 young lady advei tised for a gentleman
correspondent; object matrimony. She re-
eised los letters. She has stopped the adj
Rrtisement, for an engagement has fol-
hxed With one of the Young men who no
iced the modest 25-cent notice.
The day of the town crier, town pump
md billboard has gone by. If you have
wants. advertise.
You need not go about. like Diogenes,
With lantern. looking for an honest mar
p work in your store. Advertise for one
md be will come to you.
lou need not tramp the town looking
- dtualion. meeting with rebuffs on
MI hand. Advertise in the Posr-ISTEL-
uancrR's want columns, and the situa-
bon vii come 10 you.