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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1906
Page
18
The document lists free want ad rules and drop-off details for The Washington Post agency network. It notes no ads after specific evening times, directs readers to pharmacies for ad submission, and includes ad examples for help wanted and household services. It also mentions stenography training demands and general cleaning help.
A crowded hire note with numerous postings including drivers, bakers, clerks, and skilled trades. Listings mention age, experience, color, and location cues across Washington area. roles range from elevator boy to upholsterer and engineer. several boxes indicate applications by mail and in person, with contact details and firm names intermittently present.
A dense string of classified job listings seeks male help across varied fields. Openings include experienced jewelry tradesman, National Guard promotions, solicitor for an ex soldier aid group, stenographer and typist, warehouse stock boys, junior managers, waiters, roofers, instructors, operators with rheostat, bundle wrappers, and clerks. Numerous addresses, wages, and age notes appear, with many listings specifying local offices in Washington area and era style terminology.
A long, fragmented early 20th century help wanted column lists numerous positions including chambermaid waitress cook general housework and washer roles. It notes white and colored applicants preferred with various wages addresses and contact details across Washington DC listings and the Washington Domestic Guild.
A dense string of help wanted notices for nurses domestics and workers in mills hotels and stores with statements of race age and wages. Also numerous lost and found items including watches jewelry papers papers and a dog with various last seen locations around Washington DC. Many ads request contact through The Washington Domestic Guild and other agencies.
Classified note advertises immediate cash for used furniture and bric a brac. Bamns Furniture Shop and Snitzen & Laport promise top payouts for items including sideboards presses and household goods. Phone numbers listed for North Omaha and other locations indicate rapid pickup and cash payment.
A 1906 classified listing details a store stock sale including groceries wood coal horses wagons and store lease for the William Freeman estate in Good Hope DC with a $600 deposit and court confirmation. Also seeks partners for poultry and dairy ventures, coal mining prospects in West Virginia and Virginia, a drug store opportunity, and patent and trade mark information service.
A dense classified listing advertises bargains on upright pianos including Briggs, Mendelsohn, Baldwin, Huntington, Steinway, Poole, Gabler, and more, with prices from 95 to 4850. It also markets farm items, a Tuttle motor launch, bicycles, a Remington typewriter, a dog, a Jersey cow, a folding bed, a folding chair, a gas engine, a phonograph, and a pool table, plus various tools and household goods, all at reduced clearance rates from a DC address. Multiple contact details and locations appear, with offers for rental pianos, cash sales, and quick purchases.
Various items offered for sale include a high grade tricycle seat for invalid use, a motor cycle with 714 horsepower, a 4 burner gas stove, double bed and mattress, carved quartered oak furniture, a motor engine and pumps, a stereopticon slide projector, townehouse furniture sets, two beautiful male Maltese kittens, a tuxedo suit, and an orchestra grand upright piano. Contact BOX 2417 Station G city for details and prices.
A scattered classified page lists requests for addresses, purchases, and trades. Entries include cash paid for pawn tickets, requests for old feather beds, household items like trunks and beds, a driving horse, a sewing machine, two bicycles, and various trade offers. Multiple names and addresses appear with details on item conditions and terms.
SITUATIONS WANTED. CARETAKHA (11) BY A YOUNG WHITE MAN seeks summer care of house garden horses etc. Other listings include a designer with eye for words, an able-bodied industrious white man for any mechanical trade, a machine shop apprentice, a gymnastics instructor, an assistant at a country place, a bookkeeper, a baker’s helper, and various domestic service requests. Many entries specify race and class indicators typical of the era.
Classified ad list from Washington Domestc Guild offering positions and placements.求人 for cooks maids clerks drivers janitors watchmen and companions, with details on race, experience, and locations across NW and neighboring streets.
Classified list of domestic workers and dressmakers seeking employment in Washington area. Includes colored and white applicants offering dressmaking, sewing, laundering, housework, nursing, and child care with addresses and contact notes for agencies and private households.
Numerous listings advertise furnished and unfurnished rooms for rent in northwest and northeast Washington. Offers include single or shared rooms with heat, bath, near transit, some with board, private families, and proximity to parks and hotels.
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