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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1905
Page
13
Free want ads offered with no charge in The Post. Advertisers may place one item per day, free columns welcome short notices up to fifteen words, with pay ads otherwise. Agencies listed from drug stores across Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, and Anacostia for submitting ads to The Washington Post.
A verbose old newspaper want-ad page lists cooks, clerks, artisans, and many labor roles. It advertises for ameteur musicians, stenographers, instructors, salespeople, and delivery workers, with varied pay scales and shifts, inviting applicants from different backgrounds to apply by specific office contact points.
Help wanted ads show a wave of labor inquiries for trades and office work. Listings include meat cutter training at Walker-Hughes Market Co, plumbing apprenticeships, real estate and printing plant jobs, clerical and stenographic posts, and numerous domestic service openings in Washington area. Names, addresses, and employers like Armour & Co and Butterick Publishing appear among duties and pay options.
Classified snippets show multiple exchange offers including a grand square piano for an upright, gas heaters and lamps, a gold field mining stock for building funds, a red velvet divan for bed use, a normal graduate seeking home change, oil paintings copied from Corcoran Art Gallery for a piano player, a mandolin for violin or desk, a barbell for a rider, a Whiting desk for parlor furniture, and several mirrors and household items awaiting trade or sale. Addresses and contact box references included.
A cluttered classified page offers exchanges for household goods and tools. Items include an engineer’s railroad vernier, irons beds, stoves, bureaus, sideboards, a guitar, violin, piano, bicycle, sewing machine, a shotgun, revolver, outfits, and various small furniture pieces. Contacts listed in Washington area.
A chaotic batch of lost items includes two jeweled necklaces, a small breastpin, a black and white dog named Ted, a purse, a sable neckpiece, a pocketbook, a pig, a cravat, a silver umbrella, a side satchel, a gold chain with pendant engraved Maine, and a gold rocket locket. Rewards offered for return to owners or guardians. contact details reference Lithena, Washington area streets, and several institutional offices.
Classified items include beachful cream angora male, second hand furniture, chairs to cane, oats, piano for rent, office desk, Underwood typewriter wanted, rooms for rent, winter coat for a 12 to 19 year old girl, coat for sale, waxing floors and upholstery service, Gibbon at 32 Patterson St NE, and Gibson on Patterson St NE seeking work writing.
Miscellaneous for sale items include a large San Domingo mahogany piece, stoves, old clocks, engraving, plant, cook range, burners, metal clock, a bed, brass clocks, a night bloom, rubber tree, antique clocks, a child’s hand car, needlework items, a disc graphophone, bicycle, upright piano, dining table, bed and parlor furniture, clothing, and various small household wares. Matching ads seek a piano, a typewriter, and other goods with prices and contact pointers.
Classified listings show multiple labor positions including laundress wet wash tasks, cooking for a family, light housekeeping for an elderly woman, managing housekeeper for a gentleman, manicuring and shampooing in a parlor, nursery help for small child, nurse or invalid care, seamstress work, saleslady sewing and tailoring tasks, stenography and secretarial roles, and general housework requiring evening or night shifts. Many entries specify locations like NW Washington and street addresses, with varied pay and hours, plus boxes for response.
Legal notices from the Office of the Tax Collector DC announce realty tax assessments for the year ending June 1906 and outline penalties for late payment. Also public probate notices warn creditors and beneficiaries to file claims by December 1, 1905, with administration details and court dates. A partnership notice for Ste. Marie & Co describes a dining and lunchroom venture with partners Ovide Ste. Marie Lucian D. Bizer and details capital and term.
Classified ads offer first class board to two gentlemen or a gentleman and wife in a private family with a bay window. Also requests exchanges for furniture, books, pianos, watches, and various items. Box 7, the office, to reply.
A fragment from a Port newspaper shows a string of lost and found notices. Items include a small white poodle on Pa. ave, a dark brown seal skin muff, a knight Templar watch, two bills at a specific time and place, a pocketbook with money, a gold watch diamond set, a 8mm bag, a charm with a name, a dog, a bulldog, a fox? scarf, and a gray squirrel scarf. Rewards offered for returns and contact details given for each listing.
Classifieds list sewing machines, cameras, graphophones, furniture, stoves, bicycles, rugs, mirrors, and other household items for sale. Personal ads seek repairs, dressmaking, and small jobs. several notices offer positions or work opportunities for laborers, clerks, and tradespeople with contact details.
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