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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1906
Page
11
A dense ad listing describes free local want ads rules, submission limits, intake hours, and agency locations in Northwest and Northeast Washington. It outlines that free ads are allowed for general wants with restrictions, emphasizing that initials should be directed to the post office and suggesting agency pickups to save time.
Classified ad style notice offering agents a share of profits for selling a illustrated 600 page book titled San Francisco Horror by Bishop Fallows. Claims high commissions up to 30 percent, freight paid, credit extended, and premiums, with multiple firms listed including Cooper Co, Latham, and Percival Supply Co.
A garbled help wanted column lists agents and canvassers to read French, a stenographer experienced in legal work, and a waitress or waiter position. Other lines reference an optical salesman, a small family needing help, and schooling promises for shorthand and typing training at a Colorado Building address.
Classified ads show a broad labor market in Washington with listings for domestic servants, lawyers, clerks, carpenters, bartenders, porters, messengers, and shop help. Employers seek reliable, sober workers from across trades at firms like the Washington Domestic Guild and various storefronts, mills, and offices.
A dense job listing page shows numerous positions including drivers, shop workers, waiters, salesmen, stenographers, and skilled trades. It lists employer names like Schwarts, Castelborg's, and John Boyle Florist, with locations in Washington and nearby areas and various employment terms and hours.
Notice lists numerous positions for women including hair stain removal sales, store clerks, chambermaids, cooks, and general domestic workers. Entries specify employers, pay ranges, and delivery of applications at various Washington addresses such as Bond Landing, Mayer Bros. & Co., 937 F St NW, and 1509 Gana Ave.
A compilation of job and domestic help notices listing roles such as waitresses, houseworkers, nannies, seamstresses, stenographers, and cooks. Locations include 1802 O Street NW, Sunderland Place, Mount Pleasant, and other DC area addresses. Several ads specify race preferences and wage figures, with numerous postings for white and colored applicants.
Weaving concern offers rugs woven from old carpets as fine art. Ladies invited to visit the Designing Parlors, 1220 Market NW, for pattern cut to fit and flattering, graceful lines. Phone 435.
An old classified page lists cash paid for furniture, hardware, and household goods. requests for used cameras and feather beds. want ads for cash registers, office cases, and a range. requests for horses, driving services, and a summer care arrangement. and various buy and sell notices including bicycles, mahogany dining sets, and antique items.
A dense classified list offers items from lenses and eggs to furniture, jewelry, and vehicles. Highlights include a thoroughbred brown leghorn breeding stock, an engineer's telescope compass, a near new automobile and a Cadillac, a Remington typewriter, a grand piano, mirrors, chests, a gas stove, and a portable oven. Contact details reference addresses in Brookland and Washington area.
A jumble of barter requests and ads lists exchanges for furniture a room house central location and rent terms. It includes asks for a steel tire buggy2 seat trap a jeweled watch a bicycle and merchandise in exchange for valuables. Notices mention sewing services mourning dress and a Shakespeare subscription offer and an oil stove ad.
A flood of lost items from dogs to brooches and purses floods pages. Names and addresses appear with rewards offered at many downtown spots including Willard Hotel and The Calvo apartments. Descriptions vary from poodles and terriers to bracelets watches and rings, with many owners asking for return to specific local addresses.
A fragmented page lists business prompts including investments, real estate, and manufacturing schemes with BOX mail routes. It also mentions a saloon for sale in Baltimore and a patent and trade marks information line by J R No Ham in Washington DC.
WANTED highest cash prices for worn garments ladice gentlemen s end children s shoes and hats, postal calls. Also buyers for dep wa ipgarded clothing, spot cash. Massage and manicuring services advertised with local addresses and phone numbers.
Numerous for sale items including upright pianos with varied prices and payment plans, cash registers from National and Hallwood brands, a diamond ring described as a widow's 1-stone blue white gem, a hot air pumping engine, a motor cycle, a gasoline launch engine, a dress suit in size 06, a bicycle, a stereopticon, a panoramic Kodak Eastman No. 4, and other assorted items. Includes addresses and contact notes for Grimes Piano Stores and F. G. Smith Piano Co among others.
Monday afternoon a brown pocketbook with era name found at In etore near 1406 St. M, Phelps area. A black female dog found with stolen items at 180 Hi St Ne after 3 PM. Rats control ad. Hats renovated equal to new. Lost silver rosary with gold sacred cross between East Capitol and Church of the Holy Comforter, return to 622 East Capitol St for reward. Also miscellaneous notices about found items and services.
Personal notes mention Miss Barnes and a Manicare Chirapodict item near Arington Hotel with hours to 6 pm. The piece touts a sale of men's worn garments including shoes hats shirts and underwear, backed by a postal delivery and greenbacks. Located at 39 D.
Readable fragments show a labor exchange ad listing several workers. A cook man and wife seek catering work or North relocation, requesting room and board and own bed. A general work couple seeks a home with grocer or market store duties, early mornings or late evenings, with wife assisting at home. Addresses given as PO Box 148 and J. R. in this office.
A dense, fragmented mid-20th century help wanted page listing male applicants for general work hotel clerks janitors drivers porters elevator operators and professionals alongside colored men seeking varied positions. The ad cluster includes multiple addresses and contact instructions, with notes on race and references.
A dense listing of male situational notices from 17th Street NW and nearby districts, including servants, bakers, butlers, drivers, clerks, cashiers, bookkeepers, and general laborers. Entries seek experienced, reputable applicants with references, many offering steady evening hours or full positions in private homes, hotels, or offices. Multiple addresses, jobs span caretaker, cook, chauffeur, porter, and skilled trades with location details and contact instructions.
Situations wanted notices seek female help including caretakers and servants for summer care, with multiple listings in NW addresses. Various roles appear from caregiver to chambermaid, nurse, companion, and cashier, detailing experience, references, and contact points.
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