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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1906
Page
2
Free want ads offered by The Washington Post in multiple city agencies with a 15 word limit for rooms and similar notices. Ads accepted until 9 pm on weekdays, none on Saturdays after spa. Agencies listed across Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, and Southwest locations with small delivery fee per ad.
Fragmentary ad notes positions for Speckt Prags to Hus slyrs with fruit jar branding and mentions Pittsburgh Pa. details vague about open position timing in August and September with brand names WOLFEREFS CO and Sil daly ure.
A partial printed ad offers work in stenography and typing for students enrolled in a course. It promises good pay and a 15 219 Colorado Building address, asking interested pupils to contact the box number for more details and enrollment.
A dense classified page lists numerous job openings across trades and services in Washington area including carpenters, laborers, cooks, painters, clerks, barber, bricklayers, janitors, and sales roles. Applicants are urged to apply to local employers and agencies with varied pay, duties, and locations.
Classified help wanted listing seeks female applicants for room and board chaperone positions near leading educational institutions. Multiple roles include cashier and bookkeeper, cooks, chambermaids, waitresses, clerks, and general house workers. Applicants needed with experience, reliability, and references. address box numbers provided for responses.
Multiple help wanted notices advertise female staff for domestic guild roles, waitresses, and trimmer assistants in washington areas near 17th street NW. Listings emphasize immediate application and respectable wages with firms including Washington Domestic Guild and Seann & Co, plus occupation details and locations.
Contents of 13 rooms offered for sale including beds, sofas, gas range, rugs, carpets, trunks, wardrobes, dressers, and other household items. Ads list multiple addresses in Washington area, prices and contact notes, with many entries for general household furniture, appliances, and domestic services.
Classifieds list varied barter offers including full dress coats for pants, a fishing rod and gear, room and board in the country for companionship, barred rocks for Brahma chickens, a clarinet for a cornet, and a guitar for a gentleman's bicycle. Names and addresses indicate multiple private exchanges.
Classified ad list featuring KNABE uprights and a small grand piano, various appliances, baby carriages, a Mother's Encyclopedia, a gas engine, a gas launch, a stationary press, and other odds and ends for sale. Includes contact and location details across Washington DC listings from Wm. Enabe & Co and other vendors.
Various classified notices seek a parlor stove couch hall carpet and picture frames at low cost. Also a power screw cutting lathe and a marine gasolene engine in good condition. Ads request cheap prices and quick responses with specific contact boxes and addresses.
A list of situation wanted ads, mostly colored men seeking work in Washington. entries include salesman, janitor, bartender, clerk, chauffeur, cook, carpenter, waiter, gardener, and porter positions with addresses and offices directing applicants to Washington Domestic Guild and other offices.
SITUATIONS WANTED FEMALE seeking care for 1 or 2 small children with compensation. Various positions listed including caretaker, chambermaid, waitress, cleaner, laundress, dressmaker, cook, housekeeper, nurse, companion. Many entries show addresses and contact in Washington area, with references and wages. emphasizes colored or white workers and domestic tasks.
A collage of classified notices lists a seamstress offering sewing at home or by day with reasonable prices, plus several individuals seeking work. Listings include a stenographer experienced with typing and bookkeeping, a trained nurse seeking a position with good references, a teacher of elocution, and other domestic work roles. Addresses and contact hints appear for follow up.
Numerous rooms for rent across Northwest DC, featuring furnished front rooms, housekept suites, bay windows, and access to heat, bath, and board. Listings specify single or double occupancy, two-floor front rooms, third-floor options, and near various streets such as 17th 18th 19th 20th, Mass Ave, and Corcoran. Some ads offer hot water heat, gas, and telephone service, with rents ranging from low weekly to monthly rates and occasional housekeeping included.
Numerous listings for furnished rooms in Northwest and Northeast Washington DC areas with options for board, heat and bath. Includes multiple addresses such as 1524 I St NW and 1207 TH St NW, emphasizing front rooms, light housekeeping, private families, and proximity to car lines.
Classified page offers varied job ads including men to try Buchu gin ties and prescriptions from Baltimore, jewelry learning positions, bricklayers for a new mill near Asheville, white men for house work with references, domestic guilds in Washington, a white boy for photography ret, and a soda fountain attendant position with Modern Drug Co.
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