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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1906
Page
8
Free want ads explained with conditions on frequency and timing. Lists agencies and stores to place ads, including pharmacies and locations across Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, and Southwest districts. Includes notice on initials, posting times, and delivery options for readers seeking classifieds.
A jumble of classified employment notices seeks a wide range of workers from a wife for elopement to stenographers and typewriters. It lists positions for servants, shop workers, insurance agents, sales and office clerks, and various labor roles with contact box numbers and streets.
Classifieds show men and boys sought for learning bricklaying plastering and related trades with union card guarantees. Also multiple ads for office clerks janitors stenographers catchall shop workers and sales roles across New York Chicago and Washington with ages 16 to 40 and varying experience.
A jumble of classified ads seeks domestic workers in Washington with positions for cook, general housework, and laundry. Listings include colored and white women, with ages, hours, and wages. apply at multiple addresses and times, many naming specific streets and contact cues.
Mixed job notices and help wanted lines listing positions such as nurse for child care, nurse for infant, housekeeper, cook, colored workers, Italian translator, stenographer, sales girl, seamstress, sewing helpers, millinery apprentice, office assistant, and general maid. Addresses and phone-like cues, typical of a newspaper classified page, appear with little coherent narrative.
The page lists cash paid for pawn tickets and purchases such as old gold, silver, diamonds, and various items. It includes multiple ads seeking buyers or shoppers for bicycles, trunks, refrigerators, fox terrier puppies, furniture, rugs, and household goods, with contact hints and office references.
A dense room of classified notices offers for sale and trade items including jewelry, law books, barber chair with mirror, plush barbershop equipment, clothing, furniture, typewriters, cameras, and a wired mix of household goods. Several entries seek quick cash or exchanges, mentioning locations like 2023 M St NW and 419 3rd St NW, plus BOX addresses and office references.
Classified note offers a coupe listed with garbled wording and broken contact. Indicates a sale of a car in presumably good condition with a phone number and location near North Silty, but details are unreadable.
The Washington Domestic Guild advertises positions for cooks, maids, footmen, and other staff for hotels and boarding houses. Listings seek experienced workers, good references, and specify wages and locations in Washington, D C, with various job duties and hours.
Classified recruitment for hotel and boarding house staff listing numerous positions. Emphasis on experienced white and colored chambermaids waitresses cooks and general housework workers with varied wages and locations around 17th Street NW and Cleveland Park.
Fragmentary lost and found notices reference items such as a small brown hair trinket shaped like a purg, a book, and a car pocket item. Entries mention dates April 3 and April 1, and locations including Doston Store Avenue and Lu Ave. Likely cataloged as a local notices item with brief recovery leads.
A damaged OCR of a wartime era employment page shows women sought for housemaid kitchen maid parlor maid and waitressing roles. Listings mention experienced white or colored applicants, private homes, wages and addresses in Washington area.
Classified ads seek young colored and American women for roles as cooks, chambermaids, housekeepers, companions, nurses, janitors, chauffeurs, porters, waitstaff, and more in private families, hotels, and restaurants. Applicants urged to apply at specified addresses, with emphasis on neat appearance, good references, and prior experience.
A flood of notices reports numerous missing items from wallets and jewelry to pets and purses. Entries name various locations including 18th Street Boston store the Willard and Capitol Hill with rewards offered for return. Some refer to dates and times in April March and February with specific addresses such as Westminster Street NW and 2318 E Street NW.
Numerous advertisements invite readers to invest in furniture businesses and real estate ventures, offer saloons for sale, and trade services. Listings include opportunities with BOX numbers, claims of high returns, and solicitations for skilled labor and personal services.
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