Want ads and agency listings in The Washington Post
Advertisers may place free want ads up to fifteen words in small columns with limits on timing and repetition. Agencies at drug stores will collect five cents per ad. Listings cover Northwest and Northeast districts, Southeast, Southwest, Anacostia, with specific store and location references for delivering ads to The Post.
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Stafford’s
Fehrmar Rim
Jad
Weller
S. Richardson
Anacostia
D. C
Monroe Sts
Wanted Helpers and Agents for Embroidery Goods Trade
Classified notices offer positions and agents for a new embroidery goods firm, with pay up to $194 daily in sales commissions. Listings seek White nurses, maids, cooks, clerks, and various helpers. also include restaurant manager, real estate salesman, stenographers, and general office workers. Some ads specify Washington area addresses and工 values.
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Aess
Washington
U.S
Various Help Wanted Ads in Local Store and Trades
A flood of old style classified help wanted notices lists positions including grocery store helpers, laborers for grading and concrete, a meat cutter, an office boy, stenographers and typists, a porter, a reader, a shoemaker, a delivery rider, a law office stenographer, and a newspaper’s opportunity ads. Numerous addresses across Washington area noted, with ages, races, and wage hints scattered throughout.
Domestic Help Wanted In Washington Ads With Multiple Posts
Classified aid request listing for domestic workers in Washington area. Opportunities include cooks, chambermaids, laundresses, waitresses, nurses, maids, and general housework with varied hours and race preferences. Many positions require references. some specify stay nights or live-in arrangements and apartment or hotel assignments.
Help Wanted at the Guild on 17th Street
Situations and help wanted ad for 804 17th Street NW invites job seekers to the Guild promising better service and registered top servants. Telephone listed as Main 1346 with location two doors above H Street.
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11Th ST. NW
Washington
17Th St Ow
Hst
17Th ST. NW
Washington Domestic Guild
H ST
Washington Domestic Guild seeks servants in city
Classified ad roster from Washington Domestic Guild lists positions for chambermaids waitresses cooks and house workers of all races immediate applications required for white and colored applicants. Positions include live in duties varied payrolls from 12 to 50 dollars monthly with references requested and locations chiefly along 17th and 804 17th street nw.
Help wanted ads for female nurses and domestic staff
A列 collection of 19th century style classified help wanted notices seeking white and colored women for night care, nursing, housework, parlors, and cooking. Listings specify ages, duties, location at 17th street NW and nearby addresses, with wages ranging from 15 to 25 dollars per month and nightly duties.
Wanted Situations in 19th Century City Help Wanted
Classified ads seeking workers from bakers to janitors, mainly young colored or European men, with good references. Jobs include bakers, bellmen, hotel clerks, coaches, drivers, janitors, watchmen, and more at addresses around 17th and 904 17th Street NW and nearby locations.
Multiple Light Housework and Nurse Help Wanted Listings
A column of help wanted ads seeking light general housework, nursing, and millinery positions. Listings include light housework by colored and white girls at various addresses, nurse aides for infants and children with requirements for experience and references, and millinery sales roles with pay and application details.
WANTED SITUATIONS WANTED HELP OF ALL KINDS
Classified help wanted ad list offering positions for chambermaids waitresses clerks and other domestic and office roles. Seeks young American colored and Irish applicants with good refs. many entries specify apply at 804 17th st nw or nearby addresses with notes on experience and references. Includes broad mix of domestic service and office roles with guild notice about subscriber requirement.
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17Th St
17Th St. Uw
17Th St. Ow
17Th St. Nw
Miscellaneous sale list at 3 C St NE and nearby
Auction style ad lists household items for sale and contact details including a piano, gas stove, wardrobes, a bicycle, a go cart, a harness, a bedstead, a dining room set, a violin and bow, a rug, a pony, various engines, and stock offerings. Includes addresses 3 C St NE, 608 G St, 1104 C St SE, 1906 9 St NW, and 1728 9 St NW for viewing and inquiries.
Help Wanted Classified Ads Copy Various Positions
Nurse for two children ages seven and eight seek call 1620 9 st aw piano teacher young lady for vocal lessons call 1311 ith st aw after 7 pm reader to read to refined gentleman three evenings weekly at his apartment two dollars per evening submit to J T M this office. Repairer lady tailor shop seeks capable repair and new work 2814 14th st nw. Seamstress helper needed at The Olympia must be white and reliable apply 2414 18th st nw. Househelp and seamstress ads appear, with multiple listings for servants and workers in area. Stock girls wanted immediately at N. Phillipsborn & Co 610 11th st NW. Stenography teacher Henry Bacon 908 M St rw. Latin and mathematics teacher experienced location 1865 Pa Ave mw Room 18. Typewriter young lady with bookkeeping knowledge salary three dollars per week box 175 this office. Waist frimmers and helpers on waist garments apply 160 Rat aw.
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Wasilington
Itth St
Ature
Vail
Vernon Howell
Robert Beater
Colorado
Washington
Chamberlin Mineral WO
Baeings
Lockpot
N.Y
Chasef
Hodgkins
SOMA
X. F
Lucas Cafe
Haem End Farette Sta
Alexandria
Priv Houseman
L St
Ad- Dalry
Lincoln HO
St. Nw
Gottwalz
Iit G St Nw
George
Crocery
Paty
Capital Traction Co
Mourge & Bomar E. Saxton
Ford & Grahamm
5Th St
Ebbitt House
Ave
Graduartes
Union
Tres Catalogue
Coyne Bros. CO
New York
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Pope
Cameros St
BF. Cap. ST
Powell
DRGG
Murray Baird
St. Ne
Lincoln Hotel
EM Sta. Nw
1702 St NW
WALI
Wiles
Horge
Tih St
Stewart
Gth
Dsis
W. G. Starr
Rat Haave
Trieber
Coors
M. Philipsborn & CO
Atlantic
Teel
Jith
L Sts
Bellevue
Sth St
Ath St
Willard St
LA. Ave
Center Sc. Mt. Pleas
G St. Ne
St. Na
Douglas St
U St
10Th St
Orleans Place
Huntington, Mth and
Girard Sts
Stoneleigh Court
N.Y. Ave
ST. NB
Ith St. Ne
Nest
17Th St. Nw
17Th St. Aw
Aith St
Wash Ton
17Th St
37Th St. Nw
Washington Nomestic Guild
Expei
Tosnestoe
7Th St
Mestic Quild
17Th St. Nv
Nur
St. Aw
Sandy
J. T.M
14Th Et
Olympia
18Th St. Nw
Yan
Columbia Cafe
N. J
St. Ow
N. Phillipsborn & CO
11Th St. Nw
Henry H. Bacon
St. Rw
Aaron
For Exchange Classified Ad Items and Barter Offers
A collage of 1920s style exchange offers. Listings include stock swaps, land for horses, piano and instrument lessons for trades, antique furniture for items, steno training in exchange for housing, buying and selling small goods, a ramble of building lots for papering houses, and various second hand items offered for trade or sale. Many entries show addresses and contact hints.
Lost and Found notices from a city paper
Multiple short notices list items lost and found including a silk dress material near Kan del street, a small tan pocketbook with receipts found on Sty street, a lost pocketbook with Masonic pin at 12 Quincy Street, a pocketbook from a tea store toward Carnegie Library with reward, and a black astrakhan muff lost in the Senate gallery on January 31. A lost diamond screw earring and a lost fox terrier are also noted with rewards.
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Kandel
Jeidir
Sty St
Miss Thornton
Raarroor
Mra M.A. Goodchild
Quincy
Carnegie Library
Gordon
Senate
M. P
Liberati
Lost items flood city listings with varied rewards
Numerous notices report lost pets and items across Washington with rewards. Brown brindle and white dogs, a black terrier named Buster, a lady’s gold watch monogrammed A.L., a red leather pocketbook, eyeglass cases, a gun metal pin, and a string of beaded jewelry all missing. Reward offers accompany most notices, urging prompt returns to addresses on Massachusetts Avenue, 14th Street, or local offices.
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Asc
Griscom
Mass
Mia Tatten
A. L
Burmnesa
Washington Post
Boston
Buster
Grancaster
McLane Ave
Mil Mass. Ave
Ksts
Coran Staw
Seaton Pla
Atlanta
Wheeler
Cavalry
Riggs
Chase's
M27
Denver
Washington Gas Light Ga
Keyworth
Washington Gas Light Co
Columbia Road
Ave North
St. Ne
Katile Walker
Rhode Island Ave
Nor
Brookland
St. Re
St. Entra
Willant Hotel
Business opportunities and advertisements in a Baltimore paper
A chaotic collection of classified ads offering investment chances furniture partnerships and business opportunities. Items include prompts for investors in various ventures gun sales and theater spaces alongside requests for partners with sums from 1 000 and 2 000 and notices for real estate and established businesses. The listing features promises of high returns and opportunities in Baltimore with multiple addresses and contact hints.
Classified Domestic Help and Service Positions Ad List
A dense ad page offering domestic help like butlers housemaids and chauffeurs with varied qualifications languages and races. Includes addresses in Washington DC areas 14th 16th 18th streets NW and Ward Place NW with phone hints and box numbers for applicants and employers.
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Orce
Church Norfalk
Smith
Howe
Ama
N. Royal St
Alex
Peyton St. Alexandria
Crargh
Bf 17Th St Nw
17Th St Nw
L.white
27Th St
MURAE
Perlor
17Th St. Mw
Ith St
Butler
Engfishman
Chafteur
11Th St
Experienc
Fifth St
17Th Et
Experi
27Th St. Nw
Wisco
17Th St Aw
Hecht & CO
East
Dupont
Sora
Wyoming
Corcoran
Calvert St
Aita St
Iit
Ameri Sean
17Th Gt Nw
BAUM
Ath
Usts
M *Phonie North
M. Roginsky
United Clear
T. T
J. F
Remington
C. Registe
Louisiana Ave
Mauser
Bobbin
City Post-Office
Oiwtt Service Commission
Washington, D.C
Dumbarton
Bausch & Lomb-Zeiss
Warner & Swasey
A. G. Richmond
Wst
Department OF Commerce
North Carolina
Nuke & CQ
St. Uw
Ollie Pups
Christopher Cloyd
Prince Gt
Greenough
George Woolridge
MD. Ave
Hollenwood
Lady's Keating
Underwood
Nice
New
Martin
Russell
Dalil Sureeve
Barnes
Corcoran St
A. Morris
U. S
Thorgugabhed
Crystal Palace
Walter Floyd
Gherrydale
van Stant
Cote NR
BOME
E. B
Carponten
Conve
Physon
Columbia
Adiree
de Burnstine's
Pennsylvania Avenue
FINE
Gap
Lady's
St Nw
Kaspar
McDowell
Indy
Armat Moving Picture Co
Dress Armat
Arizona-Cuban Asphalt and Minley Co
Arizona
Oetork
Fmerson St
Very Ave
St. Sw
Payton St
Minerals
United Boys
Haygard
Fiore
RAM
J. J
Canhor
Redmond
7Th
Oram
16Th St
Satihesres
Duyer
M. Scheuer
W. Mulberry
Baltimore
New England
American de Forrest Wireless
Mission Mining
Girard
I al
Aires
Wilkinson
John
Hyattsville
D. Sheppard
Moss Ave
Riverdale
N. H
Dyke Ot
6Th St
J. LC
Dillard
Wisconsin
Gary Go-Cart
J. Ave
aMarantes
Lambert
Witti
Chamberlin Minesat
J. Bennett
Morel
M.A Limi
Macdonnell’s
Balcon
Heart City
C. J. Bennett
Cap
Afol
Sdarean
Tis Office
G. W. Evans & CO
Hennen
Lee
Ward Place
Cabanta
Gt Male
Ngton Domestic
Youtil
Thia
J. L
B. Q
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Priva
Claes
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