I happened to do a search which led me to the NYTimes issue of 2/14/1883--it's only available to subscribers, apparently. It had been a while since I'd been in their archive, which they've improved. They now display the whole issue, which was 8 or 10 pages then. Very business oriented stuff, lots of reports of commercial activity--shipping and prices and such.
There were some want ads, though instead of being ads of job openings, they were ads for jobs wanted, mostly by servants, maids, cooks, coachmen etc. Not sure why the difference, or when the want ads shifted to mostly job openings. Might make a nice paper for some aspiring historian/economist.
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