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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1906
Page
13
The Post offers free small classified ads for noncommercial wants. Ads up to fifteen words, no more than one per person daily, accepted until 9 pm on weekdays and Saturday afternoons. Agencies across the city handle submissions for a 6 cent per ad service.
Help wanted for first class caterer and singers for Princess Monae opera production. Indies must be young attractive and able to rehearse weekly. Address to Princess Bonnie Ama Eur Mnging at 1011 Bet. 6. Also wanted stenographers with typing skills. graphic academy offers 30 to 90 day courses with afternoon sessions for government jobs at Colorado Building.
Classified recruitment notes show multiple job offers and positions in Washington and surrounding area, including clerks, bakers, barbers, electricians, drivers, and labor roles. Listings request applicants with experience, references, and willingness to travel, with mail responses to box numbers. Some entries offer schooling or brief training connected to shorthand, bookkeeping, or typing, and emphasize favorable salaries and transportation stipends.
A dense list of help wanted notices: multiple ad lines for janitors, porters, salesmen, reporters, route boys, clerks, a pharmacist, a canvas seamer, lathers, a hangers, a cook, waiters, and various skilled trades. Highlights include positions at offices, hotels, stores, and residences with references, wages, and locations across Washington area including 3rd and 4th streets, National Hotel, Hotel Arena, and PAP versions. Many entries specify experience, references, and willingness to bond or relocate.
Classified ads offer positions for female canvassers chambermaids cooks and domestic workers in Washington area. Listings seek white and colored applicants with references, various wages, and immediate openings at hotels homes and agencies, with several addresses and post boxes noted.
A flood of classified help wanted notices seeks white and colored women for general housework, kitchen and maid duties, laundresses, nurse and governess roles, and waitresses. Many postings specify the Washington area addresses, ages, references, and wages, with some noting travel allowances, nights, and live-in conditions. Also listed are sales clerks and stenographers with local firms and department stores seeking experienced or trained applicants.
Furniture for sale includes a mahogany bedroom suite and a golden oak dining room set, both complete, due to a party leaving the city. Also two handsome walnut parlor suites with a six-piece set and library table from a private family, priced to move. Located at room 3, 1390 NY Ave NW. Baum's Furniture Shop offers a spot ad for various items. contact North 1613.
Advertisements offer a mix of used pianos, sewing machines, clothing, stoves, and furniture for sale. Items include a Steinway piano, a Crown piano, cravenette raincoat, oak wardrobes, dining pieces, beds, dressers, sideboards, and lighting. Also listed are bicycles, phonographs, rugs, and various household goods with price hints and contact notes.
A cluttered 1909 classifieds page offers numerous items for sale including a parlor stove, Remington typewriters, ladies shoes, pink crepe de Paris, a dress coat and vest, a hand power printing press, a refrigerator, a bicycle, batteries, a Thoroughbred filly, two two-handsoned pointers, violins, a graphophone, piano certificates, dining chairs and tables, doll furniture, horse power crocker wheelers, Angora kittens, boy's overcoat, sled, and various other odds and ends. Names and addresses appear sporadically, with some items priced and some open to exchanges.
Classified blurbs seek secondhand items from piano and phonographs to razor blades and mimeographs. Buyers offer cash, state prices, and box replies. want a piano, muff, neckpiece, typewriter, and even a small horse or live animals. multiple ads indicate cash payment and mail-in responses.
A dense clipping lists numerous lost items including a brown border collie, gold top comb, gold ring, silver watch, umbrella, purse, coin purse, pocketbook, and a pink enamel brooch. Rewards offered for returns, with several locations specified around 14th to 27th Streets NW and near the Congressional Library, National Theater, Farragut area, and downtown Washington. Also includes found items like a white collie and partial false teeth, plus classified notices seeking partners and loans.
The notice advertises home raised canaries at $1 each and bulb planting time. It mentions birds and other pets including canaries parrots goldfish and dogs at Schaud's Bird Store and Trylw e's Bird Store with varied stock and decorative items.
A dense column of classified Help Wanted items. Numerous entries seek accountants bookkeepers clerks stenographers bartenders chauffeurs cooks chambermaids waiters janitors and more. Many entries mention reliable references, long experience, or willingness to local duties with multiple contact BOXes and addresses in the Washington area.
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