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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1906
Page
4
A historical notice explains free want ads in small columns, limits per day per person, and where to place them. It lists regional agency locations and pharmacies to drop notices, with five cent delivery per ad and deadlines for free ads. Publicizing avenues include Northwest and Anacostia stations and several drugstores.
Job notice for a class on shorthand and typewriting offered by the Business Graphophone Company. Requires 16 pupils for bridge whist instruction and 8 typist experts to learn transcribing. free positions for proficient students and no charge for instruction. Classes to be held at 315 Colorado Building, Mc2-2Rs.
A garbled classified page offers a wide range of job posts. Positions include house servants, salesmen, waiters, detectives, barbers, laborers, drivers, carpenters, gardeners, clerks, and general helpers. The notices specify locations around 17th Street NW, Colorado Building, and other DC areas, with pay details and contact boxes.
Classified help wanted notices, jobs in sales, tailoring, plumbing, carpentry, hotel work, and general labor. Includes positions for furrier, coat repair, cook, waiter, stenographer, machinist, elevator man, and hotel staff. Various addresses and pay terms appear, indicating a bustling early 20th century labor market.
A dense list of domestic job ads across Washington DC offering cooks, chambermaids, waitresses, and general housework. Many entries specify race and age preferences, locations like 804 and 17th street, and salaries from $5 to $38 monthly. The ads target white and colored workers, with notes on Protestant faith and country of origin, inviting women to apply at local addresses or BOX 243.
Female help wanted listings span houseworkers, nurses, seamstresses, waitresses, and general labor. Positions seek white or colored applicants, with many requiring housing, nights, travel to states like Arizona and Hawaii, and wages around $6 to $25 monthly, with references and immediate applications.
Classified note offers pattern cut to measure for women emphasizing grace sass and beauty. Provides location at DR SINGING PAR SONS 1229 G St NW and references shirt water patterns.
A jumble of classified items seeks a spot cash for furniture and bric a brac, a variety of household goods, and stoves. Listings include WANTED TEAMS WITH DRIVERS for the Electric Trailway project, loan offers, storage space requests, a film camera, a large fireproof safe, and a refined couple seeking furnished accommodation.
Miscellaneous wants range from a good garage to hired caretakers and farm help. Advertisers seek used furniture, bicycles, trunks, a press, a piano, a dining set, and a kitchen chair or two. Also requests for summer boarding, a set of John Lord’s Beacon Lights of History, and a small motor or wagon team.
Miscellaneous for sale items including pianos registers clocks diamonds and jewelry household furniture locomotives and tools. Notable listings mention a grand piano a National cash register and various used items with prices, locations and contact hints across Mount Pleasant and Washington DC areas.
A chaotic classified page offers angler outfits, a gray cloth suit, a watch, a Wanlhan clock, a safe roll top desk, a high quality Boston terrier, a bicycle, a Century encyclopedia set, an Underwood typewriter, a period watch, a large refrigerator, Belgian rabbits, carpet and tables, a rare white necklace, a Rambler wheel, a Vogue magazine, and safes with burglar and fiburoop notes. Also rental ad: a grand upright $1 per month, box 133.
A jumble of classified lines offers services and exchanges. Items include a four act play, shorthand dictation help, suburban lot trades for groceries coal furniture or car, a New England town history or old life exchange, a hammerless double barrel shotgun for cash, a lady offering services for expenses, a silk dress exchange, a canary bird pair ad, a six hole cook stove for a gentleman, a 5x7 camera for a view camera, antique dishes electric railway tackle and a watch for a typewriter, and a fishing gear trade offers.
A dense jumble of lost items and rewards listing purses, money, wallets, jewelry, hats, a Masonic emblem, a feather boa, a pet rabbit, a dog, a crocodile of small valuables. Names, addresses, and landmarks appear with dates and times, offering rewards for return to owners or locations like 2908 Sunderland Place and 1214 New York Ave NW.
A chaotic collection of lost items including a Scotch terrier named Pub with a reward offered, a red belt with engraved letter D, a gold bead necklace, gold eyeglasses and chain, a pointer dog named Joker, a purse, a gold chain and locket, a rosary, a gold watch, a lost child’s collar, and various parcels and spectacles. Several notices request return to specific addresses with rewards referenced. Names include Pub Berry and locations such as Dupont Chels, Corcoran, Wallach Place, 8th Street NW, Mount Pleasant, and the Willard.
Worn garments hats and shoes wanted with postal return call. Several ads promise highest cash prices for ladies and gentlemen attire. Also includes services from a New York and Boston manicure and various personal notices. Names and addresses appear in multiple listings, with phone numbers and postal call instructions.
A classifieds page listing numerous situations wanted notices for males. Entries include writer and designer positions, machinist, chauffeur, auto washer, bartender, bellmen, butler, valet, cook, and cleaning staff. Mentions addresses and contact details, with varied experience levels and ethnic descriptors common to the era.
A crowded hoard of employment notices seeks clerks, drivers, elevator operators, janitors, gardeners, and other service staff. Listings emphasize young colored men and white applicants with references, offering positions in hotels, private families, grocery stores, garages, and offices across Washington area.
Classified notes advertise horses and ponies for disposal and harnesses at No 4440 410 1ath st with callers from Giles. Also items include a Dayton wagon and trailer, a light running Praxis wagon and harnesses, a Victoria cart by Brewster seen at 342 Land 105 st, and listings from McReynolds & Sons.
Classified ads list numerous positions for maids companions nurses and housekeepers including chambermaids cooks laundresses and day workers. entries note American or colored workers seeks steady work in private homes hotels or boarding houses with references and sometimes live-in options.
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