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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1906
Page
6
Free advertisements offered in various Washington Post columns with no charge up to fifteen words per ad. Instructions detail placement, limits, and local agency drop points for readers seeking to post nonbusiness wanted notices.
Help wanted ad offers positions for a stenographer and typist, male or female, to be paid with room or tuition credits. It mentions shorthand and typing training at a school in Colorado, naming a local address and dates for enrollment.
A dense OCR listing of varied help wanted notices across a Washington DC area, detailing positions from chefs and salesmen to office youths, domestic staff, and trades. The items include wages, locations like 17th Street NW and Northwest DC, references to firms, and contact methods such as box numbers and addresses.
Classified ads reveal numerous workforce notices. Listings include bottling workers with beer and soda knowledge at Bottlers' Exchange, farm couple needed for dairy and housework, experienced and inexperienced men sought for general labor, footmen and valet roles, cleaners, tradesmen for plumbing bricklaying and plastering, and real estate sales agents.
Classified help wanted for cooks and laundresses across homes, hotels, and apartment houses. Listings specify race, wages from 12 to 40 dollars monthly, and locations around Washington DC including 804 17th street NW and 470 Pa. Ave NW. Several ads demand experience, neatness, and ability to stay nights or travel to Cleveland Park, Berkeley Springs, or Asheville NC. Many positions target white and colored women with various duties from cooking to laundry and general housework.
Classified listing of female help requests including nurses seamstresses governesses clerical and waitstaff positions. Ads specify experience location near Washington and surrounding areas with varying wages and shifts, some requests detail private families and domestic duties.
A mixed advertisement fragment lists patterns, fabrics, and house goods with pricing hints. It references 44th Avenue and a Washington area phone number, signaling a local sale or catalog page. The clipped text mentions a furniture shop offering items like carpets and shirts.
An assortment of early 20th century classified items seeks workers and services. Listings include caretakers couples for apartments homes and houses, business inquiries for construction and pawn services, tutoring and inventions inquiries, and requests for carriages car parts and hardware. Various addresses and contact methods appear for Odenton Baltimore and Washington area listings with references to rooms rentals and employment opportunities.
Multiple classified items including cash registers from National Cash Register Co and Hallwood agency, sale ads for inexpensive broilers and steam tables, fall eggs with hatch guarantee from Dorsey and Hoath strains, a portable oven, a sailing loop vessel built 19M suitable for business or pleasure, with addresses and contact details in Baltimore DC and Virginia.
Woman seeking domestic work listings detail various positions including housemaid chambermaid cook and waitress with wages from 18 to 52 dollars monthly plus board and laundry duties. Advertisements solicit applicants with experience and references across multiple households and employers in Washington area.
A cluttered Washington listing with varied ads offers bicycles, furniture, a piano, a runabout, a copper shield, and other items. Buyers can call listings after 6 pm or visit addresses in Northwest DC for steel, oak, or walnut pieces, plus probate stamps and antique goods.
A jumble of notices details lost jewelry including gold locket with pearls, silk beads, rings, a parrot, and a purse with gold plate. Several reward offers promise return to owners at various addresses including Dupont Circle, 1899 Conn, and 1606 8th Ave NW. Names a Hartan Laundry and Optician Einarasa appear in scattered lines.
A garbled personals page advertises WANTED HIGHEST CASH for worn clothing and accessories for both women and men. It promises discreet, reliable service and lists contact points, including postal requests and phone numbers, with scattered references to private parties, fortune tellers, and employment notices.
Classified notices seek young colored men for domestic, chauffeur, cook, butler, coachman, porter, janitor, and related positions. Applicants must be neat appearing, with good references, often in private families, hotels, or restaurants. multiple addresses and roles listed.
A vintage grid of classified pleas lists numerous female roles from companion and nurse to chambermaid, cook, housekeeper, laundress, dressmaker, and other domestic posts. Names and contact hints appear alongside promises of refined service, hospital training, and flexible work arrangements in Washington area listings.
A jumble of classified style lines notes business changes in Washington with rent figures and owner leaving city, potential new inventions advertised as cheaply manufactured for universal demand, lease and sale ads for properties on West Side and nearby streets, a portrait business seeking sale due to sickness, and a patent and trademark information notice inviting inquiries from inventors seeking patent guidance.
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