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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1905
Page
13
Public notice emphasizes free want ads up to fifteen words per entry with limits on placement and timing. It lists multiple agency locations for submitting ads, including pharmacies and stores, and notes fees for paid business ads and deadlines after 8 30 PM. It also calls for salesmen and real estate positions seeking experienced applicants.
Classified ad fragment listing employment requests for private service, cook and maid, dairy farm labor, clerks, assistants, and general housework. Mentions positions at multiple addresses and varied roles including waiteress, dairy workers, stenography students, and shop tasks with references and wages. Contains scattered names, locations, and job specifics in a noisy OCR page.
An assortment of labor notices and job ads. Listings for bakers, builders, porters, waiters, chambermaids, cooks, stenographers, bookkeepers, solicitors, canvassers, apprentices, and general housework laborers. Positions across offices, hotels, and private homes, with varying pay and hours. many call for immediate applications and refer to boxes and room numbers for responses.
Classified notices seek general houseworkers and maids for small families across Washington. Listings cover light cleaning, laundry, ironing, cooking, child care, and overnight stays, with hours ranging from day to evening and wages varying by position and house. Many postings require references and specify locations such as northwest and central streets.
Classified fragment lists varied wants and offerings including massage, job exchanges, secondhand items, pets, furniture, tools, and a teacher request. Items include an exchange for government positions, a reclining chair, a baby go cart, a folding bed, a parrot cage, and a talking machine. The notices reflect bustling early 20th century classifieds.
Various auction and sale notices list household goods and office items including books, hardware, furniture, musical instruments, sewing machines, a piano, motor boat, gas stoves, beds, chairs, and more. Several addresses in Washington area accompany the listings.
A crowded long listing of items for sale or trade including stamps, pianos, beds, rugs, lamps, and household goods. Many entries invite exchanges or purchases with boxes and contact hints. Names like 12th St NW and Union Station area appear with prices and conditions noted.
A jumble of lost and found items listed with locations and contact prompts. Found money papers at Lafayette Park. spectacles found between 4 and 6. a pair of silk derbies. a puppy. a muff. a dog named Scotch Collie. a pair of bonds for Washington Gas Light Co.. black mourning beads. a mailing tube. a round breast pin red Bets. a silver purse with about $168 and two car tickets. Owners urged to identify and claim at provided addresses.
A flood of lost items from Washington prompts notices for a rain coat at Masonic Temple and dozens of jewelry pieces, watches, belts, and small valuables missing across streets like 7th, 8th, Florida Avenue, and Pennsylvania Avenue. Rewards offered for returns to various addresses including Green's Drug Store and the Richmond Hotel, with mentions of Monmouth and Navy Yard areas and a Treasury Department room.
WANTED SITUATIONS. BY A MAN AND WIFE, NO CHILDREN, PLACE to janitor of caterer. BUTLER PARLOR MAID OR MAID YOUNG white course, private family, beat of ret address A. K., this office a COOK AND COACHMAN FAMILY GOING bread would lie to find good homes for their colored cock and coachman, both of whom they can thoroughly recommend. COOK AND ALL-ROUND MAID. MALE ADDRESSING ENVELOPES YOUNG MAN industrious and best of reps. BOOKKEEPER AND ACCOUNTANT with years experience seeks an engagement. BUS BOY COLORED BOY IN HOTEL, GOOD. BUSINESSMAN STUDENT OR DISH WASHER. Address 2114 Vt. ave.
A dense listing of job ads from Butler area labor sources shows varied opportunities. White and colored men sought as carpenters drivers cooks clerks chauffeurs and general helpers with strong references. Listings call for experience reliability and good conduct across trades and domestic service.
A dense sequence of job listings shows a wide range of positions sought by a predominantly colored male and female applicants, including sanitor, driver, laborer, porter, shucker, press operator, real estate salesman, stenographer, typist, tailor, upholsterer, mason, waiter, janitor, watchman, and chambermaid. Names, addresses, and box numbers appear with varying clarity, highlighting urban employment seeking and segregation era labor markets.
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