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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1905
Page
11
A long archival ad list explains free want advertising at The Post with rules, agency locations, and how to submit items. It includes conditions for day limits, delivery, and filing addresses for jobs and services. It lists many pharmacies and businesses as agency points and invites readers to place classified notices.
A chaotic classified page shows numerous help wanted ads across roles including houseboys and maids, waitstaff, cooks, porters, door guards, and factory labor. Listings seek English and German speakers, German-speaking butlers, and various age ranges. several firms offer training, wages, and permanent positions, with references requested.
Classified notices offer positions for a jacket hands expert a jeweler salero woman of office work a laundress a nurse and housemaid a waitress a stenographer a clerk a forelady a ditto male staff positions include light housework and general domestic duties plus salesladies and other small job postings with locations and contact notes scattered throughout the ad list
A messy OCR style classified list offers a silk hat, parlor suites with satin damask, new matting, rugs, a folding bed, piano, gun, gas range, rocking chairs, bedsteads, a mahogany billiard table, and a Stinemetz silk hat. Ads request items in exchange or sale at low prices, with box numbers and street addresses for responses.
Classified list of home goods and items for sale including chairs, linen tablecloths from Saxon era, a mahogany table, large box, a grandfather clock, bedroom set, bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln, oak bureau, Spanish bayonet, Oliver typewriter, universal camera, fur boa, Mexican saddle, shotgun, old violin, piano sale offer, exchange asks, beaver fur items, and a two month old pup. Addresses primarily Morton street and nearby northwest Washington listings.
An auctionlike listing covers good order horses and work horses, household goods, stoves, beds, chairs, desks, a gentleman's bicycle, pianos, book sets, and various small items. Items cite addresses on Sherman, Reeves, Lament, Morton, and 14th streets, with prices and conditions noted.
A chaotic 1900s classified page shows multiple barter offers in Washington neighborhoods. Items include a clockwork of household goods and furniture such as a marble washstand, oak bed, mahogany china cabinet, a COAL COOK STOVE, and a gas range. People seek exchanges for bicycles, pianos, typewriters, firearms, tools, and jewelry with numerous address hints and contact initials scattered through the column.
The notice lists many items available for exchange or sale including a large walnut bed, iron beds, desks, sideboards, a piano, chests, a dining table, a sofa, a French or English lesson swap, a diamond ring for clothing, and various stoves and appliances. It includes contact boxes and addresses, with offers to swap for other items or cash, and mentions exchanges for cameras, typewriters, and a Dewlyn harp.
A dense classified page listing white and colored workers seeking domestic and general employment. Butler, cook, housekeeper, bellman, porter, janitor, clerk, stenographer, nurse, and dressmaker ads include private families, hotels, and offices. Numerous addresses and contact initials appear for immediate placement.
A dense run of classified notices listing laundresses by race and home service, with numerous addresses in Washington area and by words like first-class, all kinds, at home, by the day or by week. Also household staff ads for seamstresses, chambermaids, nurses, cooks, and a pension clerk. many entries specify color, location, and work terms.
Auction style listing of horses and carriages for sale or hire. Includes 20 head of horses near Troy Lexington Kentucky with various teams and saddle horses, broughams, harness, saddles, bridles, and a Victoria carriage in excellent order. Charles Smith Co offers first class carriages for hire. Also notices for three work horses and a coupe Rockaway in good condition. Contact B K Houser or pertinent addresses for details.
The ad highlights canaries parrots dogs cats rabbits guinea pigs and goldfish for gifts from Schmid's Bead Store and Schmid's Bird Store on T Street with inventory ranging to mounted deer horns and poultry. Also mentions a hospital for animals and a mastiff for sale, plus window shades by The C Silence Co and Opaque shades at discounted prices.
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