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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1906
Page
6
Public notices invite free want advertisements in a newspaper column, with limits on number per day and deadlines. Advertisers may drop ads at agencies or mail them to the Washington Post, listing pharmacies and locations for delivery.
A dense, garbled collection of 19th or early 20th century classified notices offering domestic help, stenography, real estate, and labor positions. Many listings mention Washington offices, pay, and requirements, including male and female applicants, types including stenographers, servants, drivers, agents, and factory workers. The text roughs names, addresses, and contact methods. some entries request experience or training and advertise agencies like the Washington Domestic Guild and various firms.
Fragmented help wanted notices show a broad array of positions. Advertised roles include salesmen, alteration department workers, hotel wait staff, white waiters, and general labor. locations reference streets and towns such as Tall Room 11 Tech st, Sunderland pl, Alexandria VA, with brief notes on duties and travel aid offered.
Classified listing shows numerous domestic and personal service positions in Washington DC with varied wages and hours. Entries include colored and white housework, cooks, nurses, milliner, stenographer, dressmaker, and blinds. many specify live-in options and references. boxed responses directed to PO Box numbers or local addresses.
Situations and help wanted notice for Washington Domestic Guild at 804 17th St NW inviting employers to find registered servants. States the guild offers greater choice and notes most top servants are registered, with contact by telephone Main 1345.
Wanted notices from Washington Domestic Guild seek competent staff for hotels and boarding houses. Listings include cooks, kitchen helpers, butlers, waiters, maids, porters, gardeners, and elevatormen with experience and references. Positions offer monthly wages and require various ages and temperaments. apply to 804 17th Street NW or 808 37th Street NW for details.
A bold promotional note urges readers to order eating stamps and special rates for hotels and lodging houses at 804 17th Street. The message markets “competent URLP” for securing lodging deals and rapid arrangements.
Help wanted ads list numerous chambermaids waitresses cooks and house workers. Requirements include experience white or colored workers, German or foreign language preferences, and various wages from monthly to weekly. Positions span hotels private families and households with duties from cleaning laundry cooking serving to general housework.
A long list of job advertisements seeks men for hotel and household roles in Washington. Positions include bellboy, coachman, butler, cook, elevator operator, watchman, janitor, porter, driver, and other domestic or hotel staff. Many listings specify young colored or white men, neat appearance, good references, and apply at 17th Street addresses in northwest.
Thoroughly experienced men and women sought for varied domestic roles in Washington. Jobs include housekeeper, nurse, companion, launderer, waitress, and maid positions with strong references, many requiring American or German origins and neat appearance. Applicants urged to apply at 804 17th St NW or nearby addresses with job details.
Notice aims to hire accountants and advertise decor services. Reads like a messy scanned job ad offering paper hanging painting interior decorating work. Includes address Room 2 tie Sth st nw and a discount incentive.
A stern notice from the guild asserts that no misrepresentation or indifference will be tolerated and urges members to register for a position at 804 17th Street NW contact Main 1345, reminding of expected honest cheerful effort in members’ interests.
A crowded page of miscellaneous classifieds offers corsets repairs, rug weaving, used furniture, secondhand typewriters and sewing machines, bicycles, clothing, pet puppies, braces, music instruments, and household goods. Buyers seeks location, prices, and delivery details across Washington establishments and private listings.
A dense, collage of lost items listing pocketsbooks keys jewelry and pets with multiple addresses in Northwest Washington. Found items include a white bull terrier at 1517 15th Street, a small amethyst rosary at 17 G Street NW, and a black enamel pin at Church of the Covenant with rewards offered for returns. Also notes of a diamond ring near Capitol Hill and a fox terrier Bell located by a few local addresses.
A jumble of small ads offers jobs and products including a furniture sale, portrait studio, patent information, manicuring, clerical and domestic help, tailoring, barber, grocers, and various private listings. Advertisements seek buyers, renters, and workers across Washington area including Stewart Building, Carnegie Library vicinity, and local addresses with names like Washington Art Co and B.G. Rowee.
Classified style items from a historical newspaper page show a jumble of barters and offers. Entries include exchange of a canoe for a graphophone with cushions, multiple chickens offered for exchange or sale, coats for a trunk, a lady seeking a middle aged partner, and requests for graphophones and other goods. Also listed are lessons in exchange for violin or language lessons, various addresses, contact hints, and odd job requests.
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