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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1907
Page
6
Public notices outline free advertising channels for residents. Ads must arrive by 9 p.m. on weekdays or after 3 p.m. Saturdays, with options to drop at the office or mail to the Washington Post. Local pharmacies and vendors across Northwest, Northeast, and Southeast areas are listed as contact points.
A dense Washington newspaper page lists many help wanted postings including kitchen and housework, drivers, clerks, salesmen, gardeners, and domestic staff. It also features positions for machinists, engineers, waiters, porters, and farm hands, with varied locations near downtown and suburbs, wages, and box-reply addresses.
Classified ads list multiple positions for COOKS, LAUNDRESS, DRESSMAKERS, MAIDS, NURSES, and WAITRESSES. Employers request good city or private-family references, summer placements, and immediate start. Listings specify locations around Washington DC including Fort Myer, Fort Washington, Dupont, and Foggy Bottom, with wages and travel details.
Classified ads seek workers for sewing sweatshops and laundry clerks. Listings include: experienced alterations staff at The Famous on Ith Street, girls to count lining for dressmaking, a Washington Domestic Guild posting at 730 13th Street NW, and an art department needle worker with sample work due by October 2. Also seeks cooks, chambermaids, maids, nurses, and house staff with multiple city addresses. various pay and schedule details.
Classified wish list items include land beyond the Mississippi suitable for exaiti vation, various secondhand goods and services, piano and violin asks, a two and four cylinder touring car inquiry, furniture and clothing requests, and multiple box-aled exchanges. Names and addresses appear as BOX references or individuals seeking items, with notes on condition and price.
A jumble of classified ads offers items from a brown curly dog and a blue flame stove to eggs, incubator, bicycles, pianos, and furniture. Readers may find sawed lumber, sideboards, wardrobes, and lamps alongside horses, bull terrier puppies, and two H.A. coin collections, with various contact box references and prices.
A chaotic collection of ads promises prices for discarded garments and shoes, palm reading and prophecies, massages, manicuring, and clothing collection. Multiple names and addresses appear with phone numbers, inviting readers to sell or trade items and seek services from a variety of vendors.
Multiple small ads detail a for sale office business in Bond Building earning $20 weekly, quick sale for $209. investment opportunity seeking $50,000 via Capitol Hill real estate ad. Also listings for a dry bottle stand, an eastern market stand, a room rental by a single woman, a kidney tonic ad, and patent and trademark information from J. Nottingham in Washington D.C.
Extensive sale ad lists KNABE Steinway and Weber pianos at low prices with models like upright mahogany cases, baby grands, and pianola options. Also mentions free six months moving cost, plus other items such as a motorcyle, furniture, and musical instruments with various prices and locations in Washington.
A notice advertising lessOx man, Latin, Greek and French lessons by a German scholar. Also mentions piano for rent at 1002 K st nw, interior painting and decoration services, and various shop notices including painting materials and a drug store car stand.
Classified notices show a series of dom estic help requests from varied applicants including a colored couple seeking summer care or private household work, a colored cook, a white chauffeur and wife, and a young German couple seeking housework and maid duties, with applications directed to The Washington Domestic Guild and addresses at 730 13th St and 1354 2d St NE.
A fragmented classifieds page shows multiple early 20th century help wanted and situation notices. Entries include an accountant with five years in a railroad accounting department seeking a $30 start, a variety of all round workers and bartenders, a colored man seeking kitchen or houseman work, an energetic business man willing to bond, apprentices in a union printing office, bakers, butlers and valets, drivers and chauffeurs, cooks, chefs, clerks, bookkeepers, and other service or skilled trades. Contact details reference box numbers and addresses in Washington area.
A dense classified page shows numerous help wanted ads from a Washington area, seeking drivers, household staff, clerks, stenographers, nurses, real estate interns, and trades helpers. Many specific roles listed include house boy, dishwasher, cook, janitor, porter, bookkeeper, and draftsperson.
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