Source: https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008529295/page/16/mode/1up
Many related to the Great Exhibition then ongoing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Exhibition
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And all that set by hand, one letter at a time.
3000 Euro per year, accounting for inflation, for education of young ladies. An apartment in Paris for 220 Euro per week. I like| old ads like this.
It strikes me that classifieds like this were largely unchanged for 100’s of years. Never mind the content, the form of this example would not be out of place in a newspaper 150 years later or 150 years earlier. This is one from Boston in 1704, and in London they go back much earlier still.



