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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1906
Page
2
Public notice offers free advertising space for rent rooms and miscellaneous wants. Advertisers may leave ads at offices or mail to The Washington Post with a nominal delivery service. agency locations listed include many pharmacies and streets in Washington DC.
A crowded OCR of job listings shows numerous help wanted notices for various positions. Ads seek carpenters painters drivers janitors office staff and cleaning roles. The snippets mention locations like Washington and addresses, salaries, and employment conditions in a busy urban classifieds page.
Multiple job ads and notices seek workers including jewelry makers bricklayers and general contractors. Listings include a Baltimore firm selling a medicine, a horse-related inquiry, and a youth learning holography. Contacts include John Wedderburn Company Cannon NC Frank B Gilbreth and The Washington District Guild.
A flood of classified notices seeks female help for private homes in Washington and nearby. Positions include chambermaids waitresses cooks housework and general helpers white and colored applicants with references urged to apply at The Washington Domestic Guild 804 17th St NW and other local boxes and offices. Details mention wages varying from modest to about $20 weekly and emphasize neat appearance reliability and honesty.
A collage of classified ads seeks female help for dining room waitresses, two experienced white candidates, and various roles including office music knowledge, real estate sales, soda fountain attendant, and dishwashers. Listings specify locations in California and Washington with employers like S Hann & Sons Co and The Washington Domestic Guild.
A garbled list of lost articles including jewelry, keys, a leash, a dog, a purse, tickets, a hatpin, and a ring with rewards offered. Items reference various locations such as Mount Vernon, Dupont Circle, Lincoln Park, Arlington Hotel, and 14th Street NW. Names include Dorothy Smith and Charles Levering. dates span midweek to weekend with approximate times.
A fragmented financial listing describes furniture pieces including a mahogany parlor set, walnut sideboard, rockers, a folding bed, gas stove, water cooler, and a walnut folding chair with mattress in various prices. A lost wallet or pocketbook with initials WLD CHAS P MORRIS prompts a call for identification. Items advertised for sale or exchange, with contact details and addresses.
WaVZed-Turniture for cash sale ad seeks highest price paid for furniture bric-a-brac and all household goods. Baum's Furniture Shop at 14th and Ust, phone North 131% advertises immediate purchase of death beds and related items. Snitzen & Laport also list contact numbers for cash offers on furniture and household goods.
A dense list of classified notices seeks buyers for stock in estab lished businesses and partners for ventures. Items include hardware stock, boarding houses, a dairy stand, a lunch room, and a cigar store. Also offers for selling bonds, exclusive agency roles, patents and trademarks information, and rental space.
A crowded classified style ad at 931 5th Ave NW lists Knabe pianos upright grands at reduced prices, furniture items, a gas engine, typewriters, a Columbia phonograph, a gasoline launch, a cash register, beds, dressers, and several odds and ends for sale. It advertises easy terms and shop location WM. ENABE & CO, 1218-20 F Street.
A scattered classified page lists mixed wants and ads: stove, couch, hall rug, carpet fragments, picture frames, fencing and gates, and magnetic pieces. Also seeks a second hand hammerless pistol, a power screw cutting lathe, and various notices about selling or storing items. Names and addresses interlace the entries.
A jumble of classified notices seeks services and items including lace curtains laundering, carpet work, marine gasoline engine parts, upholstering, cabinet work, and various buying and selling offers. Advertisements include rooming house rental, revolver inquiry, baby go cart, phonograph records, fur garments, dairy lunch room purchase, and feather beds with seller seeking highest prices.
Classified notice seeking a summer caretaker and wife for house, garden, horses, and related tasks. Includes address 304 17th and a card from an invalid with light duties, household dates experience, preferred suburbs, moderate compensation, and a note in the afternoon.
A dense list of help wanted and services from a historic Washington Domestic Guild page. Includes many positions: watchman, stenographer, companion, maid, cook, laundress, cashier, clerk, janitor, chauffeur, nurse, and more. Names of offices and addresses appear with each entry, showing varied hourly, daily, and monthly wages and requirements. Multiple colored applicants and domestic roles across households, hotels, restaurants, and private families are listed.
An early 20th century classified ad seeks a situational wife or nurse type with elocution and physical culture training for varied domestic work. It lists positions including washer, chambermaid, and waitress, and notes preference for a young white trained nurse or experienced helper. The ad requests applications to Washington Domestic Guild at 110th Street.
Four rooms for rent described as large, well ventilated with all night elevator service. No charge for heating or janitor service. Two rooms at $30 each, two at $9 each. Also business office space available at 38 G 8th Street Southwest with three large communicating rooms, including a retina and bath for housekeeping use.
Numerous listings offer furnished rooms in private homes near NW Washington DC landmarks and government offices. Options include single or en suite rooms with heat hot water and board, front rooms with southern exposure, bath access and shared parlors, with rates from modest to mid range and proximity to car lines and the Capitol.
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