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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1906
Page
2
Free want ads offered in small column space with strict limits and times. Listings include help wanted, rooms for rent, found items, and services, with agency pickups and payment rules. Numerous pharmacies and offices listed as drop points for submissions and local notices.
Classified help wanted notices listed positions across trades including salesmen experienced in gas rights, stenographer and typewriter, waiters, housemen, clerks, and two first class bootmakers. Other wants include a young man for a gown shop, a law reporter, and a hotel porter, with addresses in Chicago and Alexandria and references to salary and expenses.
Classified help wanted items list numerous positions including cooks, maids, nurses, clerks, dressmakers, chambermaids, and waitresses. Many entries specify white or colored workers, domestic roles, apprenticeships, and part time or steady pay, with mailbox box references for responses.
Situations and help wanted ad for servant positions. The Guild promises a larger choice of registered, high quality servants. Located two doors above H Street with telephone contact Main 1345.
An 1900s style classified ad list seeks various domestic workers including housemaids kitchen maids laundresses nurses governesses waitresses and cooks for white and colored applicants with wages and locations in Washington. It also notes a Martelle department offering electric vigro facial treatments and hairdressing.
The Washington Domestic Guild invites applicants at 504 Vth St for summer positions including hotel work and private service. Numerous listings feature colored and American workers seeking indoor, outdoor, clerical, companion, and housekeeping roles with emphasis on good references and neat appearance.
Mixed classified items include corsets made to order and repaired, gifts, used furniture, phonographs, trunks, violins, typewriters, and household goods. Advertisers seek buyers and sellers for clothing, furniture, instruments, tools, and personal services in a busy retail marketplace.
A crowded 1900s classified page lists business pitches and personal services. Notices seek capital for bread making devices, patent ideas, and distribution ventures, plus partnerships for dressmaking and cafe ventures. Also advertised are pawnlike offers, repairs, and a portrait business sale. Several entries mention patents, trade marks, and opportunities in grocery, publishing, and hotel ventures.
First class dental work offered at low prices. Set of teeth from three dollars, fold crowns three dollars, gold fillings one dollar, silver fillings six cents. Pain guaranteed. Dr Geo El Edmonds advertises teeth without plates and no extractions. Also Dr J E Wilson at 2203 F St promotes similar services with explicit claims of painless treatment and cosmetic improvements.
Multiple help wanted ads from The Washington Domestic Guild seeking experienced staff for hotels and private homes. Positions include cooks chambermaids waitresses housemaids butlers coachmen gardeners and general houseworkers with varied wages and shifts and both white and colored applicants accepted. Apply at 304 17th street or 804 17th street NW for specifics and wages.
Wanted help. Salary and chances for increase. Address: Arizona Hotel, 519 st me. Two white waitresses sought to wait on guests. Names and other details appear garbled. Ready to go to work. 695 Et.
A formal notice inviting members to register for positions with the Washington Domestic Guild. It states that honest cheerful effort is expected of members and provides contact details including the address 04 17th St. NW and telephone Main 1345.
Classified mix of exchanges for clothing furniture and instruments plus a dense run of lost and found items. Entries include requests to swap a satin coat for a white cloak, sewing machines, a violin, a dog notices, umbrellas, purses, locket, and various coins, with multiple addresses and contact boxes.
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