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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1906
Page
27
Public notice style ad list offering free or paid placements in a newspaper column. Includes WANTED HELP and RENT ROOMS sections, agency pickups, addresses, and numerous job and service requests with many names, places, and contact points. Offensive fragments and typographical errors present.
A dense, messy 1921 classified page shows numerous job listings for farm and factory work, skilled trades, and household staff. Postings seek reliable male laborers, a floor planer, bakers, lunch room staff, composi tors, order men, pressers, tailors, salesmen, and wait staff, with pay and start dates varying by role. Includes addresses in Washington area for applications.
A dense page of 1900s classified help wanted notices seeks women for various roles. Listings include general housework, cooking, sewing, manicuring, massage, and boarding, with multiple addresses in Washington area and notes on wages, hours, and requirements. Several ads push for colored or white women, practical skills, and trial shifts at offices or homes.
Miscellaneous ads list fine furniture for four rooms, work drawings, pocket Kodak Eastman No. 2, minus and exchange options. Numerous items offered include a sideboard, couch, safes, a typewriter, a lawn of blooded horses, a concert guitar, sewing machine, colonial mirrors, a piano, a dining set, and a mahogany parlor piece. Listings show prices, contact hints, and locations in Washington area.
A jumble of classified notices seeks exchanges for clothing furniture instruments vehicles and more. Offers include a government clerk promotion exchange, clothing for a table and bed, a graphophone for paddles and cushions, chickens for exchange, coats for trunks, a lounge for a cabinet, a canoe for a graphophone, several small graphophones in good condition, a stove for a table, and various horse drawn carriages and gear for sale or barter. Several addresses and contact references appear.
A cluttered classified listing promotes a 1306 Bianley Model F with various gears and features for sale or display, plus diverse ads for shades and screens, wallpaper, interior decorating, and electrical repairs. It mentions discounts, local service providers, and contact details in Baltimore and nearby streets.
Classifieds reveal numerous help wanted ads for nurses waitresses stenographers seamstresses and office staff. Positions include infant nurse caregiver housemaid cook and chambermaid with varied hours and requirements. Italian translator and general office assistant sought. several white and colored workers described with duties and locations on 6th to 14th streets NW and nearby areas.
Classified ad section lists numerous help wanted positions in private households and hotels. Posts seek cooks, utility men, butlers, footmen, waiters, bartenders, coachmen, elevator operators, and general house staff, with wages and locations centered around Washington area addresses and the Washington Domestic Guild at 17th Street NW. Some entries specify race, experience, references, and physical requirements. several durations indicate summer hotel staffing or boarding house needs.
Multiple advertisements seek chambermaids waitresses cooks and general houseworkers for hotels boarding houses and private families. White and colored applicants required experienced staff with wages ranging from 10 to 30 per month. Apply at 604 17th st nw or 804 17th st nw and other nearby addresses.
Numerous terse job ads seek experienced white and colored maids laundresses nurses governess and waitresses in Washington area homes and hotels. Wages range from 0 to 25 dollars monthly, with many positions requiring immediate application at street addresses. some notes reference a new marseille department offering electric vibro and facials.
Advertisements seek young colored or American men for hotel and private household positions including bellman, indoor man, cook, butler, valet, coachman, elevator man, porter, and related roles. Apply at detailed Washington addresses with references. many listings emphasize neat appearance and good references across 64 16th St NW to 27th St NW.
A readable vintage help wanted column lists positions including utility man by near advanced color worker, experienced laborer in indoor and outdoor tasks with strong references, and multiple roles such as valet, valets and waiters. Applicants should visit local addresses on 17th and 27th streets NW for details and interviews.
Classified notices from Washington Chronicle advertise positions for companions, nurses, maids, laundresses, housekeepers, and other domestic roles. Listings emphasize American and colored applicants, require good references, and urge guild membership for placement assistance. Contains lost and found notices and a reader call to action.
A flood of late 1900s lost notices lists pearls rings watches brooches keys and purses missing around 15th to 18th streets and downtown. Rewards offered by multiple owners include $10 $36 and liberal sums for safe return to addresses in NW and surrounding wards.
Miscellaneous ads offer top cash for women's, men's, and children's clothing and shoes. Also promotes palmistry and psychic services, detective agency, magnetic scalp massager, manicure services, and jewelry loan or pawn ticket purchases.
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