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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1906
Page
9
A transcription of an old newspaper want ad column outlines free advertising rules for room or job notices, with limits on word count and timing. It lists multiple agency pharmacies and contact points across Washington DC areas for submitting want ads, plus a note about paid business ads and delivery methods. It also advertises a shorthand and typewriting school with an enrollment promise.
Diverse classified notices offer openings for architects engineers and builders, canvassers and sales, barbers waitstaff and warehouse roles, farm and dairy work, clerical and professional posts in Washington area. Entries specify hours pay and locations including 12th and V streets NW 9th and I streets NW and other local addresses.
Classifieds reveal a string of wartime era job ads seeking steno, typists, waiters, and general office staff with state service prospects, plus a push for National Guard enlistment. Positions include stenographers, a first class solicitor, utility man, clocked by Washington area papers, with pay and advancement mentions and location notes across Canton, Murphy branch, Kenilworth, and Asheville vicinity.
A scattered 1900s help wanted page offers numerous domestic roles. Listings seek educated or refined women for office clerical work and home duties, plus many chambermaids cooks and housekeepers, with several firms like Washington Domestic Guild recruiting locally. Details include positions in hotels and private families, with wages and stay-night options noted.
A dense compilation of lost items and rewards across Roanoke to Washington, including a brown English bulldog puppy, a brown leather hand satchel with tickets and cash, a lady’s handbag with money and cards, a young white and gray cat, a gold stick pin, a pocket watch, a purse of coins, a fountain pen, and various other small valuables. Rewards offered or return instructions given for each item with multiple addresses and contacts.
An array of furniture and home items for sale including refrigerator folding bed couch and bedroom suites with prices per item. A large sale by M Huber and Burhaw Washington offers stands desks tables carpets and bric a brac. Spot cash paid for furniture and rugs by Baum's Furniture Shop. Wanted 500 feather beds for immediate sale by Snitzen & Laport with contact info.
A jumble of classified style notices from Washington rug and furniture shops offering carpets woven into rugs, old carpets reborn, furniture storage, personal loan purchases of gold silver and diamonds, requests to buy old feather beds, lost and found ladders, dogs for hire, swimming lessons, various small ads for desks cameras clocks and tools, and other miscellaneous offers including railroad tickets and general merchandise inquiries. Names include Washington Rug Co and Louis Abrahams among others with street addresses and contact hints.
Classified listing details numerous pianos including Knabe uprights and grands at cut prices. Also advertised were other items such as a Rosewood upright, a concert grand piano, a cane, a Remington typewriter, a camera outfit, furniture, and miscellaneous household goods. The ads emphasize quick closing sales, low prices, and easy terms at 925 Pa. Ave. NW and nearby addresses. Several individual notices request buyers or responses via office boxes.
Classified notices list female cooks and domestic workers offering services by day or by the hour. Entries include first class dressmakers, laundresses, housekeepers, nannies, nurses, and general housework. Locations referenced include 3419 T St, 1802 Oc et Kw, 1716 Sth St NW, 628 I St NW, and other addresses in Washington area. Wages range from modest daily rates to monthly salaries. many ads request references and specify color or race in some listings.
A dense ad page enumerates numerous rooms for rent across Georgetown to Dupont, listing sizes from single to two-room suites. Many offer furnished front rooms, board, or housekeeping, with details on location near St NW, mass avenues, Dupont Circle, and Capitol/District landmarks, plus rates and terms.
Miscellaneous ads feature bees peddled at 2 dollars each piano priced at 295 cash and 345 to repair. furniture, trunks, five room apartment contents, baby carriage, wheelbarrow, records, bicycle and chair offered. notices include a dog, a harness and electric dynamo, and a place to apply for caretaking or copyist work. Numerous addresses and contact names appear in the fragmented listing.
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