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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1906
Page
13
The Washington Post announces free want ads for rooms and services up to fifteen words with limited daily insertions. Ads may be left at offices or mailed, with agencies delivering for six cents per ad from specified pharmacies and locations across Washington, D C and Anacostia.
Help wanted ads show general housework for middle aged Christian woman or man or wife. Address 133 Pa ave Ayataira ES Light to apply. Typing and stenography courses advertised with 29 to 0 days duration. Stenographic Academy contact 815 319 Colorado Busting. Fragmentary text indicates assorted job and schooling offers.
A jumble of early 20th century help wanted ads lists numerous positions from drivers and clerks to electricians and stewards. It shows varied employers and locations, including St John's Church, Choirmaster, and several businesses along 20th Street NW and nearby avenues, with age and experience notes and address instructions.
Fragmentary job ads solicit male help for errands, stock handling, and driving. wares include gin for kidney issues and housing inquiries. Listings seek young men, managers, clerks, and solicitors, with scattered names and addresses from Washington area.
A dense listing of help wanted ads seeks White women for domestic roles in Washington DC areas including chambermaids, cooks, nannies, waitresses, laundresses, and general housework. Entries specify ages, references, wages from $5 to $20 monthly, and locations around Pa Ave NW to Columbia Road and 17th Street, with multiple agencies and private homes advertising urgent openings.
Classified notices show numerous help wanted positions for women and young girls including waitresses and chambermaids, plus various lost items and rewards. Advertisements are from Washington Domestic Guild and local firms, seeking white and colored workers, cooks, nurses, millinery staff, and saleswomen, alongside extensive lost property reports with rewards and locations across Washington.
A distorted listing describes a larger female dog named Newfound with white breast and black body, owner unknown, and various other finds including a wheel, a package with patent office correspondence, and a dog with a 1908 tag. It mentions locations near Government court between 20th and 21st streets and a general delivery address for EC Williams.
A fragmented ad page listing requests and offers for worn garments and accessories. It mentions Justh's Old Stand and Bellwood Parlors, a National Detective Agency contact, and various outfits seeking cash for cast-off clothing including shoes hats and coats, with several phone numbers and addresses from a city classified section.
Multiple classified notices advertise sales and leases including a general store in Good Hope DC with September 1 2006 auction, a fruit store for sale in Wisconsin Avenue area, and a coal yard for sale. Also listed are investments ads, a dairy lunch room for sale, a patent and trademark information service, and various business services.
Local ads seek cash for used furniture including a medium size tone room table, oak sideboard, dresser, washstand, and refrigerator at low cash prices. Also buyers purchase bric a brac, stoves, and other household items. several dealers list contact details and phone numbers for quick sale.
Old Washington Evening Star item offers exchanges for a ton of clamps and a guitar or Ossian’s bicycle. lists name WM H Wilkerson Jr Anacostia in DC area and Albert H Lib and 3 Sts NW noting a store with a good condition guitar and a bicycle for trade.
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE a FIRST CLASS B FLAT CORNET 3% in C and A alac a bary stone and alta at one third of original cost 611 in avo ee B HAVING TWO G7 CAMERAS WILL EXCHANGE a Gundlach 7 plata or Sim pack rapid recti near jens cost 620 good as new with leathee vast for a pocket Kodak 8 rea Address H A H 100 N ave APPLETONS CYCLOPEDIA CONSULAR Reboris for 15 years miss Dicycle Address S W D office
A brief community note mentions woven carpets presented as fine art by an unnamed local craftsman. The item discusses weaving workmanship and a contact reference for further inquiry, with a stray phone listing noted as part of the small notice.
Multiple listings offer uprights by Briggs Mendelssohn Huntington and others with prices from $100 to $550. Also advertised are wardrobes, runabouts, shotguns, bicycles, a motor launch, a pool table, a phonograph, a typewriter, books, and more, with dealer contact at F. PROOP & SONS CO and addresses in Northwest Washington.
A dense mix of classified notices seeks items and services: a lady knocked down by a ladder, storage and furniture handling offers, stove sale, pawn cash, old feather beds wanted, a Boston Bull Terrier, a manicurist, a cabinet maker, secondhand boards, inventions and games, a driving horse, a horse for feed, piano care, and various wanted to buy ads. Addresses include 1353 Q St NW, 486 8th St NW, 426 3th St AW, and others in Washington and nearby Maryland.
Classifieds list a variety of job seekers from a young white man and wife for summer care taking to positions in clerical, sales, janitorial, driving, cooking, and crafts. Notable listings include a tailor of eye, a housekeeper, a colored butler, a gardener, a chauffeur, and a range of shop and office roles with brief contact directions and locations in Washington.
SITUATIONS WANTED MALE VALET INTERPRETER FIVE LANGUAGES addresses and references sought Apply at 17th St address. WANTED YOUNG COLORED MAN AND WIFE FOR GENERAL HOUSEWORK with good refs Apply to Washington Domestic Guild 17th St. WATCHMAN OR JANITOR COLORED with references Apply 4008 Taw NW Washington. WATCHMAN GANG BEST OF REFS Apply E. V. Phillips 470 C at NW.
A newspaper classified page lists numerous positions including maids cooks companions and nannies. Employers seek refined white or colored women with various experience levels and offer wages from modest to $25 monthly with hours by day or private families in Washington D C and surrounding areas.
A dense list of rooms for rent and service jobs in Washington area. Includes cleaning, seamstress, stenographer, teacher, tutor, washings, and living arrangements with many colored workers and women seeking domestic positions. Entries specify location near 17th St NW, Dupont Circle, Capitol area, and other NW wards, with varying rates and terms.
Numerous listings offer fur rooms for gentlemen and private families across multiple streets including 15 ETH ST NW, 2 MASS AVE NW, and 408 Q ST NW. Highlights include front and second story rooms, private baths, heat, and board options with weekly to monthly rates, some near Franklin Park and Lafayette Square.
A jumble of rental shop style classifieds lists items for sale including a small refrigerator folding couch kitchen sideboard drop leaf table iron bed mattress water distiller and more with addresses 624 N 3rd street 1214 NY avenue 428 11th street NW 2420 PA avenue Dew Ea 18th Street and others plus notices of new bedroom suites antique table and mirror oak bookcase and cherry bedroom set with prices and contact hints indicating a city leaving town sale and general cheap furniture offerings.
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