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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1906
Page
21
The Washington Post runs free want ads for non business notices like rooms for rent or found items and asks readers to limit to fifteen words per ad. Ads must be submitted before 9 pm on weekdays and no ads on Saturdays after 3 pm, with multiple agency drop points listed for submitting and a five cent fee per advertisement.
HELP WANTED. MAN AND WIFE AS COOK AND UPLIFTY MAN, WITH TAXES TO Kerk Myers wages. 340 Hy SLATE st. TENOGHACHER AND TYPEWRITER-COMP tent, male or female, mate prefers for about any month. STENOGRAPHIC ACADEMY RE219 Colorado WIng, R22 OS.
A chaotic compilation of early 20th century help wanted notices. Domestic servants clerks salesmen and drivers sought with various wages and required experience. Positions include chef, grocery salesman, real estate agents, office helpers, awning cutters, and tailor shop errands, with contact details and addresses across Washington area.
A chaotic classifieds page lists multiple help wanted notices for the Washington area. Positions include bottling beer and soda, a farmer and wife for domestic work, footmen for households, general labor, learned trades in plumbing and plastering, real estate sales, janitorial and elevator work, and various sales and office roles. Several entries specify race in descriptions and request white or colored workforce, with locations and contact details scattered across 17th Street NW, 14th Street NW, Wisconsin Avenue, and nearby corridors.
A lengthy, duplicated classified notice lists numerous job openings for cooks, laundresses, houseworkers, maids, and related domestic roles. Positions specify race and white or colored applicants, wages ranging from monthly stipends to per month sums, and require experience, reliability, and the ability to stay nights or travel to places like Cleveland Park and Berkeley Springs. Many listings request applying at specific Washington addresses and describe various household duties and living arrangements.
Multiple help wanted notices list positions for a nurse, seamstresses, a nursery governess, office workers, and waitresses. Applicants sought include experienced white or colored workers, with references, to locations around Washington and surrounding areas. Wages and duties vary by post, with several postings for immediate calls and specific hours.
A garbled catalog snippet references pattern names and prices, including shirt-waist patterns and moving rice, with contact details for a Washington shop. It lists furniture and house goods and notes a Baum's Furniture Shop at 44th Avenue.
A jumble of help wanted and buy sell notices from a Washington area listing. Items include delivery work in Odenton Maryland, caretakers for apartments and houses, pawn and loan offers, a country house keeper, and various small ads for second hand goods. The page also mentions an elite directory for 1808 style listings and inquiries for carriages, toys, games, and a piano for rent or purchase.
Mixed classified ad copy offering cash registers from National and Hallwood, cheap broiler and steam table, brown leghorn eggs guaranteed to hatch, portable oven, and a sailing loop vessel. Includes at least two addresses in Baltimore Washington area and Alexandria Virginia with prices and contact hints.
Female help wanted and domestic service ads from a Washington area page. Roles include housemaids chambermaids waitresses cooks and general helpers with varied wages and hours, many requiring experience, references, or white or colored workers, and locations listed across several NW addresses. Names of firms and household heads appear with contact notes and timing for applications.
A chaotic list of used goods and ads from a local paper includes bicycles, a half dozen furniture pieces a waxed piano a typewriter and various small house goods. Items include a Columbia bicycle a walnut stand a chased oak sideboard a folding bed a pine imperial wheel a Hamilton style phono and many other oddments with prices and contact notes scattered throughout.
A flood of lost items including jewelry, rings, pendants, bracelets, a parrot, silk items, a gold locket, and a gold ring appear in notices. Rewards offered. several items reported missing near 8th Street NW, Georgetown, Dupont Circle, and nearby avenues. Names like Hartan Laundry and Dr. Einaras appear, with dates ranging from Tuesday to Sunday and locations including 1th and 7th streets, 16th Street, and Willard Hotel.
Personal column fragment lists names, services, and solicitations for dating and personal ads. It includes references to manicures, cash for clothing, detective agency, fortune teller, wig highest cash offers for garments, and various contact lines. The text is garbled OCR with scattered contact details and promises of services.
Classified notices list young colored men seeking work as butlers chauffeurs janitors drivers cooks and waiters with references, plus other domestic roles and service positions. Applications directed to street addresses in Washington area.
A collage of 1920s classified ads offers women seeking work as companions, chambermaids, cooks, housekeepers, nurses, and maids. Listings include refinement focused roles with references, along with wages and contact details.
Classified list shows listings for lease on West Side 7th Avenue with rent 225, ad offices BOX numbers, sales of portraits due to illness, and patent trade mark information services by Nottingham at 812 Fort Avenue Washington DC for patent guidance. Multiple contact boxes indicate a congested local commerce notice page.
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