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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1905
Page
15
An extensive list of free want advertisements details free columns rules and agency pickup options. It lists several pharmacies for drop-off, and various job notices including cooks clerks stenographers and general helpers with locations in Washington D C and surrounding areas. The notice emphasizes no charge ads for personal notices and outlines mail and office drop-off procedures.
A dense block of early 20th century job notices including positions for houseboy, chambermaid, cook, office clerk, parcel delivery, and upholstery work. Listings call for white and colored workers, many with age, sobriety, and experience requirements, plus references. Some ads seek German-speaking staff, hotel help, and printing plant workers.
A scanned 1900s style want ad page listing numerous help wanted notices for general housework, including colored and white girls, laundry workers, cooks, and maids. Many entries specify residence addresses such as 508 10th St NW and 169 PSP ONT, with notes on experience, steadiness, references, and wage offers or stay-at-home options. Other entries seek nurses, stenographers, waitresses, a manicurist, and office helpers, some indicating travel or salon work, and various cities and neighborhoods in the Washington area.
Classified ads seek an instructor to teach huck or clog dancing at 1400 Pierce Place and related items for sale or hire. Many listings cover second hand furniture, musical instruments, pianos, phonographs, typewriters, a bed, chairs, and household goods with various contact addresses and boxes. Local opportunities include renting rooms, buying a dining room set, and trading a hydro extractor or underwood typewriter.
Numerous local classifieds advertise varied used goods for sale in Washington area listings. Adjustable Swiss music box, suit, parlor table, gas oven, large piano, engravings, chairs, couches, bicycle, trunk, and more offered at bargain prices. Also notes about offer to trade and delivery by appointment. several items include contact hints and addresses.
A cluttered old market ad lists antique violin, parlor sofa, kitchen range, carse items, and various furniture. It notes demonstrations at Henry Eberbach near 036 Fat. nw and street addresses like 1029 3D St nw Marion Ave nw and 1613 ce nw. Also mentions a pony trap, harness, pigeons, shotgun, baby carriages, gas stoves, and a rosewood piano small safe.
Numerous items for sale listed with prices and locations around Morton Street NW and nearby avenues. Antlers, handsaw, mahogany table, ice box, grandfather clock, bedroom set, bronze Lincoln bust, oak bureau, Spanish bayonet, Oliver typewriter, universal camera, wardrobe, carpet, Davenport, graphophone, small gas range, plush wrap, bound volumes, telephony treatise, flutes, autoharp, certificates, coat, suit, dog, incubator, baby carriage, and more are offered with terse descriptions and contact cues.
Numerous items listed near New York Avenue and Vermont Place include a full carpenter’s chest of tools, carpets, kitchen table, dress suits, a Sealskin coat, a puppy kitten, an encyclopedia set, elk teeth, a mandolin, beds, tables, clocks, plant, antique items, and exchanges. Addresses and contact notes appear for pickup or inquiries.
Classified list offers exchanges for furniture, beds, chests, pianos, bicycles, and household goods. Items include a mahogany sideboard, walnut beds, dining tables, a cook stove, a refrigerator, a gramophone, and a large parlor sofa. Several entries request trades against other goods or services, with boxes for replies.
A historical classified ad page lists items to exchange including an antique mahogany table a bedstead and a table all seeking trade for useful objects. Also asks what readers will exchange and mentions a lost and found service in the Post with free classified ads.
A chaotic help wanted and lost and found column offers various notices. Entries include a small white poodle found on Ba ave, many lost items such as rings watches purses dogs and a priority on rewards. plus help wanted ads for domestic care, stenographers, and skilled trades with numerous named addresses and contact points.
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