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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1916
Page
2
Mixed classified items advertise a civil service photo tie offer and employment postings. Includes janitor and wife needed in Blair County Pennsylvania plus a typist position, Remington machine, and apartment care duties with board lodging references.
Energetic young men of good address to learn the real estate business and to devote all or part of their time to the work. Every assistance to succeed offered them by the largest and highest class suburban development adjacent to Washington. Call between 10 and 12 a.m. at the Real Estate Trust Co., 14th and H. Also help wanted for chauffeurs, barbers, clerks, and farmhands with steady work and good wages. Applications at Box 389 this office or to local employers.
A dense classified page shows numerous requests for housework, cooking, laundry, and nanny services. Advertisements seek colored women for private families, hard workers for daily tasks, a waitress, stenographers, and office help. Also listings for charms, palmistry, and odd jobs.
Public bids for lost items and rewards posted across garret and street markets. Missing pocketbooks wallets keys and letters promised rewards. several cats dogs and a bulldog reported with rewards for returns. Items include a lady’s pocketbook at Union Station a white Angora cat from 1986 and a garrett park note with addresses in Maryland.
Classified items show a mixed set of short notices from a historic era: a American couple seeking care work at a hotel or institute, a married couple seeking care for a small apartment, a cook and outbuilder worker pair, general work for a man and wife in the country, and a hotel management position at a Boston hotel. Names and addresses are noted of interested parties such as Wm. Kirk and a George with street addresses in Northwest Washington, D C, reflecting a local classifieds format.
Classified ad listing various service providers and job seekers including a carpenter J Doran at 1116 N, watchman candidate, auditor and accountant after 5 pm, baker, welder, bellman, bookkeeper, stenographer, and butler positions. Includes contact hints and partial addresses in a distressed OCR page.
Classified notice of varied positions including caretaker janitor carpenter chauffeur and hotel staff. Advertisements show numerous colored and white applicants with references and city addresses, listing job types from housework porter waiter cook and painter to clerical work and driving gigs in Washington area.
Job listings from a historical newspaper show numerous postings for chambermaids housework nurses and caregivers many seeking colored workers across Washington areas with various shifts and references. Listings include caterers cleaners cooks stenographers secretaries waitresses and companions with addresses and contact notes in wide array of postings reflecting job opportunities and social norms of the era.
An archival fragment lists numerous ads seeking COOK, laundress, and housework help by colored women, with locations such as 1424 ety Mae ooS tow Reva 19th at and 1204 Rost. aw. Other entries request morning or evening work, day labor, and occasional dinners, often noting ref. s and addresses in Washington area streets like 8 Cantate Aw, 1747 8 tap e yb aw, and 982 Fix, ave. as. st, nw.
A sprawling classified listing shows multiple WASHING and LAUNDING ads offering first class service and home pickup. It also includes numerous room rentals with descriptions of facilities and rates in Washington area addresses.
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