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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1906
Page
13
Short free advertisements outline rules for free want ads in The Washington Post. No business ads without payment. Ads accepted until 9 pm weekdays and 8 pm Saturdays. Agencies listed for drop-off and 5 cent delivery to The Post.
A jumble of classified ads seeking agents managers stenographers waiters clerks and skilled tradesmen. Items include sales agents for books and fiction, legal stenography jobs, domestic help guilds, and various shop and factory positions across Chicago Philadelphia Washington Baltimore and San Francisco with incentives commissions and freight paid offers.
A dense wartime style want ads list seeks male workers for many roles. Positions include delivery boys ages 14 to 16, grocery drivers and clerks, elevator conductors, a superintendent, a man with embroidery skills, a night watchman, painters, paperhanders, rush for a reader and stenographer, solicitors, salesmen, a shoemaker, soliciting, a tile setter, tin roper, transit men, wall scraper, a drug store porter, and more. Amounts include salaries from 15 to 40 dollars weekly and various shift roles across commercial firms, dairies, drugstores, and department stores. Applicants should present themselves at specific business addresses or send boxes to the local office for consideration.
A dense local help wanted listing offering various domestic positions. Openings include chambermaids, cooks, waitresses, stenographers, housekeepers, a model, and clerks. Employers seek experienced workers, colored and white applicants, with nights and long hours noted and multiple addresses in Washington DC.
Classified help wanted notices show numerous positions for general housework, white and colored women, maids, cooks, and laundresses, plus dressmaking and seamstress roles. Positions specify no experience, salary ranges, and residence at 120 Sunderland Place and other addresses in Washington area, with minor hotel, private family, and office posting details.
An advertisement notes carpets woven in fine art style by Washington Rug Co at 951 5th Ave NW with phone 4223. It also promotes custom pattern cuts for ladies garments to achieve a perfect fit, inviting visits to the Designing Parlors at 122 G St NW for shirtwaist patterns.
Miscellaneous for sale items include watches, jewelry, furniture, a 16 foot gasoline launch, cameras, odds and ends, and an antique mahogany bookcase. Listings mention a Stone Diamond brooch, a dining set, a bicycle, and a motor bicycle among various household goods, with sellers offering quick cash and local delivery in Washington area.
A collage of classified style barter notices from a historic newspaper page. Items include exchanges for clothing, furniture, coal, groceries, a 15 month old thoroughbred dog, a suburban home swap, and requests for services or real estate trades. Addresses, names, and odds and ends appear in multiple listings, with prices and trade terms scattered throughout.
A scanned page listing numerous lost and found items and situations wanted notices. Items include jewelry, wallets, clothing, pets, and a variety of requests for employment such as bookkeeper and bartender positions. Locations referenced include Washington DC and surrounding areas with addresses and contact hints.
Classified items include a hustler wanted for business venture with $900 entry, a coal business for sale with 30 32,000 to $6,000 values, and a vault of opportunities seeking investment and ventures. Also listings for vegetarian meat stock, a saloon sale in West Baltimore, patent and trademark information offered by J A Nottingham in Washington DC.
Numerous ads crowd the page seeking cash for worn garments. W. RIC, 1392 Tth at nw, and Burnstein's at 613-615 Dos, aw, offer highest prices for ladies and gents clothing. J Tarshes and others invite postal calls. Also massed listings for various clerical, retail, and service jobs appear alongside palm readings and detective services.
Classified notices list numerous positions including caretaker ladies and maids in Washington DC area. Entries seek housekeepers cooks chambermaids nurses companions and more with emphasis on white and colored applicants, ages and references, and various neighborhoods such as Georgetown and Dupont Circle. Several boxes reference a Bem office contact for responses.
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