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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1906
Page
13
Free advertising available for wanted help, rooms to rent, and other acceptable notices, with limits and schedules. Ads drop after 9 pm on weekdays and after 3 pm Saturdays. agencies accept ads for a fee of 5 cents each at selected city pharmacies and locations.
Help wanted notices solicit workers for various roles including gatekeeper and stenography positions. The items mention age requirements from six years to thirty and reference applicants applying in person at local addresses with names such as Charles W Holmes and George Werkington University. The mix of garbled text suggests historical job ads for clerical, stenographic, and teaching tasks in a university or city setting.
A dense OCR of classified ads listing diverse male labor needs in Washington area. Entries include pressman, clerk, porter, stockbroker office help, barber, warehouse, cook, waiter, driver, carpenter, and other positions with wages, locations, and contact cues. numerous references to white or colored workers and conditions. Some entries provide employer names or addresses, while many are terse prompts seeking reliable, available men for immediate work.
A dense classified missive shows numerous employment postings including night clerk for a sixty-room hotel with wages and room, office boy for a newspaper, painter and paper hanger, pastry baker helper, plumber, porter, druggist, stenographer, advertising manager, and more. It lists locations like 731 Sth St, 223 B St NW, Richmond Lunch, Annapolis, Central Contractor, and various job conditions, with brief pay details and contact pointers. Several positions target white or colored candidates, with age or experience notes and offers of room and meals where stated.
Abbreviated job notices seek female help for domestic roles in homes across Washington area. Positions include cook, houseworker, laundress, chambermaid, companion, and general household tasks. Some listings require experience, neat appearance, or color preferences. pay ranges and hours vary. apply to Washington Domestic Guild and other offices.
A crowded classified page advertises numerous help wanted posts for housework, cooks, Nannies, maids, and stenographers. Entries specify race, wages, hours, and locations around Washington area, with many postings seeking white or colored women, young girls, or reliable workers for families and small households.
A jumble of unsorted ads seeks exchanges and barter deals. Items include a mattress exchange for a girl’s bicycle, a white woman for light duties in return for home care, room and board offers, a camera and film equipment trade, a horse for a faster mount, a post office sale of a vintage Washington Evening Star issue, and a man seeking work in return for room. Addresses and names appear with scattered details.
For sale or exchange a straight six automobile in good condition with new tires. Photographer of Washington seeks $10 or a trade for a lady's desk. Contact the photo office for details.
The Olivers Press at 925 F St NW announces low prices for letterheads, business cards, bioheads, and statements. One thousand prints cost 1.00, five thousand for 5.00, all produced in a union shop with quick turnaround. Augie.
A long list of lost items from Aug 3 to Aug 7 includes a gold banded pen from 8th and I Street to 7th, a package of papers, a black seal pocketbook with cards, a small purse with $8, a gentleman's black pocketbook, a brown satchel on Conn Avenue, and other small valuables. Rewards offered by various owners and locations include Wellers Drug Store, Corcoran, and the Treasury.
Personal notices show buyers offering top cash for worn clothing including ladies and mens garments, shoes, hats, and accessories. Several listings request prompt delivery and provide contact details such as North 1766, North 489, or a post office address. Agencies and stenographers advertise confidentiality and quick service.
Classifieds show multiple ads including a Brooklyn investment opportunity with $1 to start and potential 360 and up weekly income, along with LA landseekers excursions from Washington and assorted sale notices for furniture, hardware, and business partnerships. Also advertising brokerages and patent information services appear among listings.
Notices and short ads seek buyers and services: used furniture upright pianos safes bicycles and trunks wanted. storage offered. selling and buying requests for tickets, railroad passes, jewelry, and coins. small services in upholstery, cabinet work, and guiding lessons appear alongside two automobile wires and weaving asks.
Dense classified list of used pianos uprights grands and accessories from WM. Enabe & Co and E. F. Droop & Sons Co plus motors, cameras, furniture, bicycles, and various items. Offers include upright pianos from $100 to $520, a small grand for $720, a mahogany upright, a pipe organ, a rotary duplicating machine, a launch priced low, and other odds and ends with partial contact details.
A crowded slice of classified pages listing items for sale including a refrigerator, Mauser carbine, wheels, and auto parts. Also numerous help wanted ads for caretakers, bartenders, clerks, drivers, cooks, maids, and stenographers with varying qualifications and locations.
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