classifieds, St. Louis, July 24 1911 newspaper.com

mention rate of pay:

shovelers $2 day; baggagemen, brakemen, firemen $75 and $100 month; wrecker $1.75 day; young man well dressed $18 wk.; teams 50 cents a load; car repairs 24 cents an hour; boys 16 years old $6 week; Marines monthly pay $15 to $69; girls to paste samples $3 week.

boys/men:

man young polishing trade , man collector general asst. real estate office, men 50 teams 50' beds, 25 men, 2 young men, men to shovel dry clay in shed, upholster, wagon woodworker, waiter, 5 single men to travel in crew leave city at once, Army, Marines, molders, overall and pants makers, paper cutter, porter, presser, press feed, quarry men, sash sticker hand, shipping clerk glass and china, stoneman, teamsters, telegraphers, tool and jig maker, young men to travel, shoe workers, sole cutter, boy to sock line, boy over 16 to cut strings and cement channels, tip sander, art glass worker, baker, blacksmith, boy for tailor, boy for painting, boy 2 years experience drug store, WHITE boy drug store, delivery boy meat market, boys 18-20 factory, brick layer, brick handler, bus boy, card writer, carpenter, machinist, men to cook in camp, man young care for horses and deliver - room and board, man to take care of horse and wagon, man and wife on farm - wife does housework, man young educated shipping department, carriage woodworker, coat maker, compositors, cook, cutter, demonstrator to work in window, die maker, dishwasher good wages and room young man, fry cook, short order cook, electrotypers, elevator boys, engineer, farm hand, fireman, grocery clerk, meat cutter, hog butchers and laborers, houseman, ice delivery, job printer, laborers, junior drug store clerk, agents, solicitors, salesman, partner.

women:

arm waitress, bookkeeper, candy dippers, cashiers, chambermaids COLORED Usona Hotel, cloak model, comptometer operator, cook house girl, cook German woman, cook COLORED come at once, dishwasher man, dishwasher woman, cook male or female, dishwasher COLORED Star Lunchroom, sewing girls, front makers-joiners-fellers Ferguson-McKinney Shirt Factory, press room, line trunks, attend office, typewriting, to attend office, girls in all departments Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, girl young WHITE to attend 2 children, pack ice cream cones, pharmacy, silver pantry, general housework, power sewing machines, housegirl white, housegirl COLORED, house girl German preferred, ladies to travel, answer phone and figure, lady well dressed and pleasing appearance, laundress COLORED, laundress WHITE, nurse, operator on kimonos and house dresses, operators on pants making front and backs, hand sewer coats, pantry woman, spotter, stenographer, waitress, head waitress, washer, washer woman, women over 25 factory work, body ironers, cuffers, saleslady, closer, table girls and sample vampers.

is it just me or do these traveling jobs sound a bit sketchy?