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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1905
Page
15
A public notice explains free want ads offered by The Washington Post. Ads are limited to under a specified word count, must be placed for a single person per day, and free postings end after strict cutoffs. Agencies at local drugstores collect five cents per advertisement for delivery to The Post.
Classified notices show a wide range of employment offers in shorthand stenography office work and other trades. Listings seek male and colored applicants, with positions in real estate, grocery, clerical, factory, and publishing roles. Multiple firms, including Butterick Publishing Co and Gordon Press, advertise immediate openings with steady or commission-based pay and room for advancement.
Classified ads seek a young man with grocery experience and knowledge of the city for wholesale and retail duties. Also numerous notices ask for female workers including chambermaids cooks laundresses seamstresses and general housework staff with references and wage details listed across DC listings.
Small classified items sought for purchase including furniture, pianos, typewriters, records, jewelry, clothing, and a pony with harness. Cash offered and delivery or agent pickup arranged. Listings show boxes and office addresses for responses and payments.
Numerous used goods offered for cash or trade including shoes one pair Hess five dollars up to a double bass, an upright piano, a Remington typewriter, beds, bedsteads, a mahogany and oak bedroom set, a dining table, chairs, a corner sofa, a bicycle, scales, a golf stand, and various odds and ends. Addresses and box numbers indicate office listings and exchanges.
A dense late 19th or early 20th century lose and found column lists numerous items and people. Purses, jewelry, wallets, a Boston terrier puppy, a gilt belt, letters, an umbrella, watches, and assorted personal belongings are sought or offered for reward. Several entries request returns to specific addresses or cross streets in Washington, DC, with rewards noted for successful recoveries and references to owners like F S and John Mack.
Classified notices list a flood of positions including cooks, laundresses, seamstresses, maids, nurses, porters, janitors, and general helps aimed at colored workers and private families in Washington and surrounding areas. Many entries offer low pay, varied hours, and emphasis on honesty and reliability, with addresses in New Jersey Avenue, 4th Street NE, and other local streets.
Miscellaneous for sale items list includes a Punsmore typewriter recently overhauled for 27 dollars, a baby carriage in good condition, oil paintings and antiques, a grand piano, a mink and velvet coat, a fashionable tailor made dress, a revolving office chair, a large tow collar, a blue Walsh coat, minerals valued at 109 dollars now 40, a Nambilor runabout auto complete outfit for 200, and miscellaneous ads for furniture and a dry goods store. Also mentions a tobacco and periodical stand, and a furniture lot at 13 rooms with boarders, along with contact boxes and office references.
Classifieds offer top cash for worn garments including ladies and children's wear plus shoes hats and underwear. Also solicits readers to mail for calls and visits. Numerous beauty manicuring chiropody and palmistry services advertised with addresses and phone numbers. Watches diamonds jewelry loans offered at 3 percent with pawn tickets bought. Various fortune telling astrology and dental services promoted with locations and hours.
A crowded ad page lists items for exchange or sale including leather goods overcoats coats and robes, a piano certificate, coal stoves, enameled chests, Regina disks, cornet lessons, parrot cage and mantel, hardwood, books, rugs, a go cart, note paper value, mandolin, bed springs, office chair, violin, tools, baby carriage and a fold top desk. Addresses and contact lines vary across 14th to 10th streets NW and nearby avenues.
The text describes Hotel Stratford on Fourteenth Street with amenities like billiard room and parlor, plus a legal notice about Ste. Maria & Co forming a limited partnership under district law. General partner is Dave Ste. Marie and special partner Lucian D. Sizer, with capital contributed of 350 dollars. Partnership runs November 1, 1808 to November 6, 1810. The Sunday Post subscription rate by mail is 5.30 per year.
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