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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1905
Page
11
Public notices describe free want ads in The Washington Post with limits on content and timing. A list of agency pharmacies across districts offers dropoff points and five cent per ad delivery to the paper.
Classifieds reveal a flood of help wanted notices from early era papers. Advertisements seek salespeople, stenographers, typists, shop workers, colored couriers, and general laborers with varied wages, hours, and housing offers. Many entries urge prompt applications and list street addresses or box numbers.
Classifieds list numerous positions for chambermaids and general housework by white and colored women. Entries show locations in Washington area, various employers, and notes on references, wages, and hours with contact details and street addresses.
Classified listings seek a second hand rolter chair, folding beds, desks, a piano, safes, chairs, a black feather boa, a mantel clock, a stove, and various furniture items. Several ads offer cash for used goods, furniture, and small household items within walking distance and near Washington area addresses.
Classified for sale items across 18th street and nearby blocks. Includes bent wood chairs, chandeliers, stoves, sewing tables, a seal skin coat, typewriters, a bicycle, a trap camera, and various household goods. Also lists a dog for sale, a guard dog, a barrel shotgun trade, and a piano certificate. Many items priced low with contact hints.
Classified ad list of items for sale including a goat in harness, oak headboard, gentleman’s bicycle, gas stove, bed springs, jugs, crockery, mirror, homeknit slippers, folding bed, electric coffee mill, Christmas tree box, oil stove, wooden bedstead, Swiss music box, various furniture and appliances, with locations in Anacostia and Washington area and prices or trade offers. Also mentions a 12-volt gas radiator, horses with prices, a 9th street NW address, and a 6-key gold hunting case watch.
Classified notices invite offers for a bakery and confectionery with equipment and retail route, seek investment in plastics goods, and advertise for sale cigar and periodical store, furnished rooms for boarders, a treasurership in a corporation, and wholesale wine liquor and fancy grocery outlet. Includes box numbers and office contact references.
A crowded 1930s classified page lists objects for exchange and barter from furniture and musical instruments to bicycles, gramophones, cages, books, and a range of household goods. Names and addresses appear with trade offers, including remakes of mantels, beds, desks, and art items, plus requests for specific replacements and values.
Classified exchange notices list offers for an oak bookcase in excellent condition and a walnut desk or dresser. Also seeks or offers involving a horse delivery wage, a small stove, a sewing machine, and various household items. Several lost and found notices appear with locations around K Street Northwest and Washington DC avenues.
A dense list of job ads seeks colored and white applicants for varied roles. Positions include general laborers, glazing, furnace and machinist work, hotel staff, housework, chambermaids, cooks, waitstaff, janitors, porters, stenographers, and office clerks. Many ads request references, honesty, and reliability, with BOX contact entries for applications.
A fragmented 1920s classifieds page offers high cash for clothing and various services. Listings include gar men t ext, barber and manicuring services, palmistry and fortune readings, and a few professional ads. Names and addresses appear with ambiguous contact details.
Christmas gift guide listing dogs cats rabbits and birds with prices and supplies. Mth Bt Hospital for Animals advertises skin clinics dog and cat care, boarding, a dog cemetery, and contact at North 1663 with instruments and incubators referenced.
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