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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1906
Page
11
The Post offers free want ads with limits and guidelines. Ads must fit street-word constraints and may be placed at local agency drug stores for a small fee per ad. No ads after deadlines. initials delivery, and locations listed for Northeast Southeast Southwest areas.
Job ad for a housemaid or boy companion and teacher positions at a local school offering courses in whorinand and typewriting. Address at 26-019 Colorado Building Rozs de5 with morning interview on Monday April 1d 18. Applicants urged to inquire, with pupils earning from 30 to 6¢ days.
Classifieds offer many positions from barber shop work to carriage painters and house helpers. Listings target white and colored workers, with wages, hours, and housing details, and emphasize experience and reliability.
A jumble of classified notices offers jobs and training across trades. Listings include kitchen workers, machinists, carpenters, painters, plumbers, bricklayers, soda fountain attendants, waiters, elevator operators, and solicitors. Several ads specify colored workers, steady work, and training catalogues from trade schools.
Numerous classified notices seek female help for cooking chambermaids waitresses and general housework with varied wages and locations. Positions include colored and white workers, urgent openings at hotels private homes and summer posts, with requirements for experience reliability and sometimes religious affiliation. Addresses mostly in Northwest Washington and nearby streets, with box numbers and office contact details.
Classified ads offer many general housework positions near 1280 South Street and 17th Street NW with varied requirements including experience, references, overnight stays, and willingness to travel to states like North Carolina and Arizona. Jobs target both white and colored applicants, detailing pay from $12 to $30 per month and emphasis on reliability, cooking, laundry, and child care.
Fidelity Storage Co at 1420 U St NW touts a huge, indestructible warehouse with 1000 rooms, burglarproof vaults for silverware, heated storage, vehicle rooms, and experienced packers and movers. They claim low rates and guarantee to save you money with prompt service.
An old ad offers baked beans and brown bread for 26 tents with doorstep delivery Sunday morning. It lists Blair's Bakery at 63 H ne and notes orders should be done by a stated time. Also mentions dressmaking and pattern services at a parlor on 1270 G at ov. with shirt-waist patterns priced at 750.
A collage of old classified blurbs seeks cash for furniture and junk. items listed include f u r n i t u r e s h o p wa n t s broken down machines and various household goods. letters request buyers and workers and provide contact addresses across several cities and offices.
A mixed classifieds page offers a Magnificent Hardman upright grand piano for 275, several National cash registers and Hallwood registers at cut rates, used bicycles and furniture, a 1908 hunting launch, and miscellaneous items. Includes ads for milk, partitions, clocks, a Remington typewriter, a gramophone, a phonograph with records, and jewelry.
A damaged classified page fragment lists various for sale items including mirrors, eggs for hatching birds, a second-hand wheel, a typewriter, furniture, an upright piano, a gasoline launch, a revolving chair, and other household goods. It mentions locations in Washington DC areas Brookland and Willard Street NW, with partial prices and conditions. Names and addresses appear scattered, reflecting a busy urban classifieds section.
Classified notices show exchanges for groceries furniture coal or autos, small pets and items like a bass bamboo and a hammerless shotgun. Individuals offer services and lessons, with requests to trade or sell, including a New York trip, a dress swap, and various contact boxes at 1221 Columbia Rd NW and other city addresses.
A chaotic list of lost and found items across blocks near Capitol, including purses with keys and small money, jewelry, handbags, a dog, a feather boa, and a trench of miscellaneous personal effects. Several rewards offered at various locations, with contact references to Webber, Sunderland Place, and New York Avenue addresses.
A chaotic collage of lost items and rewards including dogs, purses, wallets, jewelry, a gun, a mink scarf, a badge, a cane, and a jewelry brooch. Locations cited include Washington DC areas such as the Zoo Park, Dupont Circle, The Lenox, and the Willard hotel, with various reward offers and contact clues. Many entries specify dates like Tuesday April 10 and March 2, plus exact addresses for return.
Multiple classified notices offer cashable opportunities including a well equipped mik route dairy facility for sale, a corner grocery, a for sale by owner cigar store with $100 fixtures, and a large corporation share option promising high dividends. Also listed are patent and trademark services and a publishing and printing company purchase opportunity.
A jumble of classified style notices shows cash for worn clothing and hats with postal call options by J Tarshes and W Rich. Also listed are manicure and scalp services, clairvoyants, palmists, and a Denver style detective agency, plus office rentals and notices related to debts and public warnings.
Classified snippets list job seekers and workers: a caretaker or house man and wife, a chef and housekeeper couple, a janitor, a stenographer, a typewriter operator. Names and addresses appear along with arbitrary terms and locations. The text shows occupational notices and employment requests from a Harlem era classifieds page.
A dense help wanted column offering positions for a wide range of services. listings include apprentice, bartender, cook, butler, driver, janitor, gardener, clerk, engineer, and other trades. Many entries specify race, age, and reference details and request applying at local addresses or box numbers.
A jumble of help wanted and personal ads lists various roles from private secretary stenographer and typist to salesman clerk watchman and valet. Many entries request references, ages, education, and willingness to work evenings or travel with positions in offices real estate firms and medical or professional settings. Some entries show contact through office boxes or addresses in Richmond New York and nearby streets with references specified.
Numerous workers seek positions in households and offices. Entries include companions, chambermaids, cooks, cleaners, laundresses, and clerical helpers. Details show various addresses in Washington area, descriptions of experience, and references. Some seek part time day work, others live in arrangements, and several note hospital or nursing background. Various colors and nationalities are listed with stated qualifications and duties.
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