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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1906
Page
2
The notice outlines free want ads with limits and timing. It lists multiple city pharmacies as drop points and instructs readers to mail or leave ads, noting no free ads after 2 pm and no Saturday ads after 8 pm. It emphasizes no ads for businesses unless paid and directs initials to specific recipients.
Notice seeks agents to sell goods with offers including copper plate engraving. Includes address 202 Ewin, New York and mentions Gray Co. Shopping style ad aims to recruit sales agents for monetary commission.
A garbled recruitment page lists diverse job ads from cashiers to stenographers and farm laborers. It suggests paid training in shorthand and typewriting, waiting staff, sales, and factory roles, urging quick apply at multiple Washington offices and addresses. Individuals sought include colored and white applicants, with varied hours and wages.
Classified ad fragment listing gas stove, six antique cherry chairs, parlor set, carpets, gas range, and other furniture. Includes beds, springs, folding bed, wardrobe, rugs, mirrors, chiffonier, and a large contents description of a ten room house for sale before August 10. Owner listed as T 6th St and 1th NW area with contact notes.
Classified ad segment seeks cash for furniture, parlor and bedroom sets, gas ranges, hall carpets, piano storage, oak chests, china closets, mirrors, and textiles. Multiple respondents offer high prices. contact numbers and office addresses provided.
PERSONAL S. WANTED HIGHEST CASH PRICES PAID For worn garments ladies' and gentlemen's and children's shoes and hats. send postal. address 1335 Ith bl. nw. phone North 753. THE BELLWOOD PARLORS. scientific facial marage. 2d floor. MORGAN BRADFORD superintendent. After 6 p.m. main 1069. LOST AND FOUND notices interspersed with ads and misc fragments follow in the source text.
A scattered classified column lists business opportunities for sale including a half interest in a Washington beet processing plant, cheap farms and ranches in the Dakotas, small light manufacturing ventures, drug store estate settlement, mushroom culture startup, coal shares, and a fourroom hotel with turnover. Also offers to rent a large floor space and a patent and trademark information service. Contact details include BOX addresses and names such as Louis Allen and HUDGINS with locations in Washington and West Virginia.
A miscellaneous item notes Washington Rug Co at 986th St New York offers woven carpets as fine art. Catherine will give her St Bernedoodle King to anyone providing a hot tip. Details at Schmid's Bird Store on 1th Street.
A jumble of classifieds seeks buyers and services including feather bed purchases, piano storage, a Victor Graphophone, a film camera in good condition, a McDowell oven, a 2-horse wagon, and various helper roles. Listings request prices, conditions, and contact details, with many notes on storage, lending, and purchases.
A flood of abbreviated ads lists a odorless refrigerator bargain, phonograph models, bicycles, canoes, milled bricks, dogs and birds, typewriters, watches, motors, and assorted household goods. Prices range from cheap to practical, with contact notes and locations scattered across streets like 14th Street and Northwest neighborhoods.
A chaotic classified page offers used pianos oversold by Droop and Sons with uprights at 859, Huntington and Gane Square models, plus many others: books, dogs, parlor suites, a boiler, desks, clothing, bicycles, a goat and harness, autos, a Cortland rubber tire runabout, and a 14th Street listing. Notable items include a Grast piano overhaul, a 40 dollar upright plane, and 135 parlor suite.
A flood of barter notices lists exchanges across many items. Flute sets, classical texts, a small oil heater, cameras, a grand piano, a cornet, a garnet or slide trombone, and even an automobile are offered for bicycles, typewriters, or other gear. Names and partial addresses appear with requests for fair trade equivalents.
A crowded classified notice page lists numerous help wanted ads for men of color and white, seeking positions as caretakers, draughtsmen, bartenders, butlers, chauffeurs, cooks, maids, clerks, and various trades. Many entries specify addresses in Washington area and reference veterans, refs, and travel.
Classified notices show numerous job ads for reliable colored and white women seeking domestic work. Listings include chambermaids waitresses cooks laundresses and general housework with varied hours and wages. boxes reference Washington area offices and guilds. Multiple names and addresses appear with job types and qualifications in a dense 1900s style recruitment page.
At year end sales, Knabe & Co advertise best values on used pianos. Rentals returned instruments include Mahogany Cecilian player and Wheelock upright in fine condition offered at unusually low prices. Prices quoted as extremely low to clear stock before autumn.
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