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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1907
Page
4
A historic notice outlines free advertising rules for notices and want ads. It details acceptable content, word limits, and how to submit by mail or agency. It lists multiple agency locations across Northwest Northeast Southeast Southwest and Anacostia with addresses for fee advertisements.
A column of job notices lists positions for after school work at American Soap Co and Washington Domestic Guild, with wages and contact details. Additional ads seek experienced houseworkers and cooks, garment workers, laundry help, stenographers, and typists, offering tips on wages and locations such as Watertown Mass Newport News Va and Washington DC area, reflecting varied hiring options and demands.
A dense ad page lists employment notices for male and youth workers across roles from hotel help and paper hanging to sales, barbers, clerks, and delivery helpers. Wages, hours, and locations vary with postings targeting Washington area employers such as The Arizon a and local shops. several entries seek colored or white applicants, with some specifying age and experience requirements.
A broad, chaotic page listing numerous job ads from Washington area employers. Positions include clerks, cooks, porters, farm hands, drivers, office boys, paperhangers, shoemakers, and salesmen. It includes race and gender descriptors, with several entries seeking colored workers and varying wages and hours.
A collage of job ads seeking a variety of domestic workers in the Washington area. Listings include kitchen girl, ready to apply at 906th Street NW room 10, and many chambermaids, cooks, and domestic helpers across several addresses such as 12th and 13th streets, 6th Street NW, and downtown locations. Many ads request women for housework, cooking, babysitting, and light sales with wages and contact BOX numbers or offices.
A dense Western era job notice page listing many positions for domestic workers in Washington. It seeks cooks, maids, laundresses, houseworkers, and other service roles, largely for White or Colored women, with varied wages and many apply-by addresses at The Washington Domestic Guild and local addresses. Includes multiple single-line postings and directives.
Classified items show a flood of job ads for housework and domestic help from multiple households including color preferences and language about duties. Numerous lost items including watches, wallets, jewelry and pocketbooks are listed with rewards and contact notes, plus found items and notes about various small services and notices.
Classified ads show many exchange offers including piano certificates, building lots for a car, equity in real estate for timber or plants, clerk positions in the War Department, a request for a music teacher, and household goods traded for furniture or a piano, with box numbers and locations across the area.
Various items offered including a white net gown over silk, a stand of furniture, piano, sewing machine, bicycles, a bulldog call name, a terrier female aged months, a range of household odds and ends, and a stock offering from Fair ghon Company. Many listings include prices and box addresses for response.
Classified notice listing bargains in used pianos including Brabe Bose Bay Grand and Steinway pianos, plus various secondhand items such as a Victor Talking Machine, a brindle bulldog puppy, upholstered cots, a three wheeled go-cart, clothing, and services. Includes contact boxes for the office and multiple street addresses in Washington.
Miscellaneous notice seeks honest workmanship and references for interior painting and decoration. Name C Olson, P O Box 47 Takoma Park DC, plus a young man seeks amateur theatre club or to organize one. Also appears to mention a store cab stand and stray unreadable text.
MARVELOUS PROPHECIES STARTLING REVELATIONS MME RITA Astrologer Palmist and Card Reader, in holding receptions at 722 9th st nw. Fees 50 cents. Parties attended.
A dense classified page offers numerous help wanted and service seeker notices. From a colored man seeking household work and summer care duties to experienced chauffeurs, cooks, maids, and butlers, plus positions in real estate, clerical, and hotel service. Widespread races and languages noted, with BOX contact references and firm agency attribution to the Washington Domestic Guild.
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