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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1906
Page
2
Free advertising space explains rules for want ads including up to fifteen words, placement in columns, and free insertions until success. It lists agency locations at drug stores across Washington areas with names and street corners for submitting ads in person or by mail.
Advertises two solicitors of good character for special work connected with a bank. Seeks applications through Mr. Farnsworth at People's Savings Bank, 28.
Classified ad notes demand for stenographers and copy editors with courses needed for rapid training. Listings include stenographic academy in Colorage Building and positions for solicitors, clerks, and assistants in various firms. Includes Navy Yard draughtsman exam, architectural draftsperson in Wilmington, and multiple labor and clerical roles with pay details and application directions.
A dense OCR scan lists numerous 20th century help wanted ads from Washington DC options. It includes roles such as chambermaid, waitress, cook, clerk, hostess and houseworker with color preferences and age ranges, plus addresses and contact boxes. It reflects era racial and gendered hiring norms and multiple households seeking staff.
Female helpers sought for millinery training and domestic roles across Washington. Listings include white and colored applicants for housework, nursey, cook, laundress, waitresses, stenographers, and sales positions, with ages, locations, and contact details scattered throughout.
Classified listing of household furniture for sale including bedroom suites iron beds parlor sets and miscellaneous items. Several ads note immediate private sales and prices such as 88 160 7 and 5 with contact addresses in northwest Washington near 1th Street and 24th Street plus mentions of mahogany parlor suites gas stove beds and other pieces from multiple sellers.
An old classified style notice offers a fine gentle faithful bulldog for sale or exchange. The seller invites offers for other items and provides a partial address clue OX 179 with a faded hand note.
A compact listing of lost items including a silver watch, an enamelled tie pin, a ladies zippered wallet, a Swiss watch, a gold bar pin with an emerald, a boy’s bicycle, and various personal belongings. Contacts for recovery and rewards are given, with locations such as 18th Street, Mount Pleasant, Corcoran Street, and the Pentagon Office cited. References include University of Michigan item and multiple addresses in Washington DC regions.
Miscellaneous for sale items include KNABE pianos upright and small grand with varying prices, a wide range of household goods, furniture, baby carriage, beds, and tools. Also offers for harnesses, traps, bicycles, typewriters, and travel wares all advertised with contact notes and addresses.
Miscellaneous want ads include Remington typewriter second hand address and price, trunk and size. Rooming house sale or rent cheap central location by Sept. 1. Buy second hand modern square piano, diamond ring or pawn value, horse board for country convenience, 12 gauge shotgun price, bicycle purchase offer, miniature baby grand piano price, typewriter to rent or buy, camera for sale, hammerless guns for sale with description, iron fence and ragging pieces, full fares and one way trip ticket, revolver for sale, early lathe for cheap, 100 feet iron fence and ragging pieces, parlor stove and frames wanted, postal sent to Southern Feather Co for feather buy. Vendor locations include 2217h address, Bond Building, 2d nw, 63 Md. eve, 931 file st. nw, 63. Md. ave, nw, and 910 Fet-nw.
A详细 list of domestic job ads appears seeking a widow to care for two children, plus numerous positions for chambermaids, cooks, companions, and housekeepers. Listings include colored and white applicants, shifts from morning to evening, and positions in hotels, private homes, or flats.
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