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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1906
Page
11
A reproduction of an old notice detailing free advertising rules for wants ads. It explains placement, limits, and delivery options across multiple Washington, D.C. pharmacies and agencies, urging readers to use free columns for brief ads and noting timing restrictions for posting and returns.
Classified ad snapshot shows multiple job offers and help wanted notes. Listings include a salesman position at Colonial Polish Co in Scranton, a conerner for commerce branches in a high school with 800 salary, Fisk Teacher Agency posting for a teacher, and stenographic academy ads.
Workforce listing shows varied job openings including tailors, office clerks, drivers, carpenters, cooks, maids, and sales staff. Advertisements seek experienced workers, good references, and willingness to communicate promptly for immediate or next year positions in Washington area establishments.
A collection of short job notices seeks male workers for domestic, kitchen, and general labor. Listings include cook and cleaner positions, travel solicitor roles, stenography in a patent office, kindling wood work, and driver with references. Several ads request age, color, and box responses.
In a dense classified notice, multiple ads call for female help including chambermaids, cooks, and general house workers. Positions target colored and white women of various ages, offering wages from 10 to 40 dollars, with stays nights and long hours. Applicants advised to apply to The Washington Domestic Guild at 230 13th or 730 19th streets and similar addresses.
A dense, fragmented list of help wanted ads for general housework, nurses, maids, laundresses, and office work across Washington area addresses. Includes white, colored, and domestic staffing entries with wages, locations, and application instructions. Names of agencies appear, notably The Washington Domestic Guild, with multiple street addresses and box numbers.
Dated classifieds offer palmistry readings by Daoud and a wide range of services and solicitations. Multiple entries advertise cash for worn garments shoes and hats with calls to postal mail or phone. Also listed are nail manicuring parlors and massage services with hours and addresses.
Advert says best quality oil opaque window shades and shades hung free with camates. Sale includes drapery and papered room at 1601 9th. Samples brought relate to process and price likely low.
Classified notices list numerous for sale ads including an upright piano, sideboard, feather beds, dressers, and other furniture. Also many lost items such as dogs, watches, jewelry, and personal effects with locations and contact references across Washington DC addresses and box numbers.
A dense page of miscads from a historical newspaper lists requests and offers including second hand lumber and doors, animal rewards, cheap metronomes, an auto boiler, typewriters for rent, and piano exchanges. It also shows buying requests for diamonds and gold and notices for renting rooms and furniture repairs.
Situations wanted listing shows Gret roles for housework and domestic duties. The ad mentions willingness to perform first class tasks and related housekeeping services. Limited readable text suggests a request for employment in household management and cleaning duties.
A dense listing of help wanted ads and domestic worker requests. Many entries seek experienced butlers, coachmen, cooks, maids, porters, janitors, and clerks, with wages ranging from $25 to $80 weekly. Several notices direct applicants to The Washington Domestic Guild at 730 13th Street or other offices for placement.
A dense set of helper and clerical job ads from Washington Domestic Guild and other listings seeks experienced stablemen stenographers cooks and clerks. Diverse applicants describe readiness for positions with wages and references, urging contact through P.O. boxes and 13th street offices.
Classifieds list positions for chambermaids, cooks, nurses, companions, and general housework by experienced colored or white women. Listings specify wages, references, and locations in Washington area, with multiple private families and day or live-in work.
A flood of classified help-wanted notices seeks laundresses maids cooks nurses and companions. Listings show experience requirements rates up to 25 dollars weekly and varied locations around 15th Street Kingman Place and adjacent addresses. Several firms including Washington Domestic Guild issue calls for dutiful workers with references and day or live-in arrangements.
Willard Storage Office advertises sale of fine vehicles including front brougham depot wagon and rubber tired carriage options. The listing mentions price figures such as 4275 and 123, various carts and harness, and a range of carriages stored for sale or rental at Speedway Stabler 400 to 41p 14th stone Block from 11th and Peave. Call to inspect and obtain bargains.
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