Free Want Ads Offered by The Washington Post
A historical notice outlines free advertising in The Washington Post for want ads up to fifteen words. It lists agencies at drug stores across Northwest and adjacent areas, with fees for mailed submissions and post office handling, plus delivery details and contact points.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
the Post
McNulty's Cigar
Roe
Ith
Albany
King Pharmacy
Ermont Ave
I St
Astoria
Wanted Ads Offer Jobs Across Washington Area
A collage of classified notices seeks workers and performers. Listings include embroidery sales agents, tenor singers, laundry markers, a cook and laundress, a domestics guild, stenographers, real estate sales, solicitors, elevator attendants, messengers, and other positions. Many require experience, some offer desk space or room, salaries vary, and locations center on Washington D C and nearby streets.
Help Wanted Listings From Early 20th Century Page
A dense classified page lists varied employment ads including fruit handler, gardener, office worker, general utility, grocery clerks, meat cutter, solicitors, waiters, stenographers, shop workers, teachers, and domestic staff. Many entries specify age, race, and location details across positions at downtown addresses like 2606 M St NW and 700 Fat NE, with notes on wages and shift timing. The page also shows numerous box-number responses and directions to apply at local offices or businesses, reflecting era labor markets and social hiring norms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl B
Joe Phess
Finion
C St
Ford & Grahar
15Th St
Ebbitt House
N.Y. Ave
Coyne Brob. Co
New York
Chicago
Cincinnati
St Louis
Blackiston's
Pope Lidge Porter
Cameron St
Alexandria
E. Gap
Powell's Drug Store
Murray Baird
UNION
Ongd
Isadord Freund & CO
Lincoln Hotel
Lte
Hosta
F ST. NW
George
7Th St. Sn
Poattion
Moor, & Macelver
Colorado
Stewart Didg
Tihard O Sts
General Houseworker and English-style help wanted ads
A dense classifieds page lists numerous help wanted notices for general houseworkers, maids, nurses, cooks, kitchen staff, dressmakers, seamstresses, and waitresses. Many entries specify white or colored workers, ages from teens to adults, with details on stay nights, children to care for, and locations around Washington D C including 614 Orleans Place Tad or 17th Street and N W and various apartment buildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orleans Place
Sera Bourges
Stoneleigh Court
N.Y. Ave
Capitol St
St Re
ST. NE
St. Nw
Genti Mars
Ag Drees X
Legation
Tost
Rhode Island
Variety of Notices and Classified Ads from Local Paper
A bustling mix of requests and offers including buyers for gowns and jewels, home decor items, fur and jewelry disposal services, pattern cuttings, furniture and rug resale, cash for used garments, dental supplies, clerical exchanges, driving horses for sale, cheap tickets to New York, go carts and showcases for sale, old concert programmes, and infant care help, reflecting a late 19th or early 20th century urban classifieds page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Scheuer
Washington
M Scheuer
W. Mulberry
JwiMimore
Baum
Usts
Washington Domestic Guild seeks servants at 804 17th St NW
Help wanted ads list positions for Butlers, Chambermaids, Cooks, Laundresses, Waitresses, and other domestic staff. Various wages and requirements, including white or colored workers, must stay nights, English language, and references. Apply in person at The Washington Domestic Guild, 804 17th St NW, with multiple postings detailing hours and duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
17Th St. Nw
47Th St. Nw
Iva
17Th At
17Th St
New York
St. Uw
Washington Nomestic Guild
Tadles
7Th St
17Th St. Aw
Tennessee
No- Nestic Guild
17Th Fe
17Th St. My
St. Nw
Nuren
11Th St
17Th St My
Nursh
17Th St Nw
Washington Rosestic Guild
27Th St. Nw
Ith St Nw
Miscellaneous ads seek used goods and hires
Classified notices itemize jobs and wants. A refined middle aged lady seeks immediate employment as companion or office attendant. Multiple listings seek musical instruments, a Remington typewriter, a national cash register, a repeating Mauser grip, baby walker, wardrobes, dressers, and a brass bed. Buyers and sellers offer terms and contact addresses in Washington DC area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Angelus
United Cigar CO
T. T
Tees
Sis
Remington
St. Nw
Louisiana
13Th St. Nw
12Th ‘St
Mauser
U. K
Wanted Situations Advertisements For Various Jobs
A dense list of help wanted notices seeks experienced workers across many roles. Positions include bakers stewards chauffeurs butlers clerks janitors porters and elevator men with要求 good references and apply at 804 17th st nw or nearby addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
17Th
Sith
WATCHMAN AND CHAMBERMAID LISTINGS MIXED ADVERTISEMENTS
A dense ad page seeks jobseekers for chambermaid, cleaning, cook, nurse, companion, laundress, and other domestic posts. Applies are directed to 804 17th st nw and nearby addresses. Listings emphasize neat appearance, American or colored women, and strong references with contact via Main 1346.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yith St
17Th St
17Th
17Th St. Nw
St. Nw
Nich-Ap
Ith
7Th St. Nw
17Th At
17Th St, Aw
Virginia
17Th St. Ow
27Th St
Emall
Tyth St
17Th Et. Nw
37Th St. Nw
17Th St. Aw
Ith St. Nw
7Th St
Cheap for cash goods and services listing
A dense classified snippet offers items for sale and wanted ads. Includes boat hulls, sewing machines, firearms, cameras, optics, real estate broker licenses, binoculars, clerical positions, sideboards, clocks, desks, phonographs, crates, safe folding doors, beds, stoves, and furniture. Entries specify prices or requests and contact notes in Washington DC area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bobbin
P. O
City Post-Office
R. Butler
Civil Service Commission
Washington, D. C
Dumbar
Bausch & Lomb-Zeiss
Warner & Swasey
A. G. Richmond
Wst
Commerce and
BOK
For Sale Classified Ads Mix in Alexandria Area
Numerous items offered including a JNH large branched rubber tree, furnishings of a small rooming house, baby carriage, six-ton furnace and pipe, china paintings, a square piano mahogany case, a white iron bed, a grocery store counter and lamp, organ, camera gear, clothing, glass jugs, oil stove, new bicycle rims, rubber plants, dress suit, bull pups, a Madonna framed picture, a desk, and a stone lot of heavy building shown free by calling 6140 St. NW. All items listed with contact addresses and prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
JNH
Leest
Alexandria
Cit. c
N. H. Ave
Y. Ave
Jens
St. Ne
Deak
Cali Ae
Keenan
Brentwood
O. Syrewarrer
Manhattan
Reid
Remington
C. M.S
St. Nw
Christopher Blood
14Th St. Ne
Princess
Greenough
Adilis
George Woolridge
St End
Glenwood Cemetery
GES
Orleans
Jill 12Th
Crese
Lady's Keating
12Th St
Underwood
L. C. Oh
Nice
Martin
Russell
N.Y. Ave
K.B
P. m
Shreeve
Hyattsville
ST Nw
Goldstein's
Cor
Barnes
Columbia
Corcoran
Morris
HOX
Crystal Palace
FLOYD
Cherrydale
Deslers
New Columbia
MD Ave
Rooma
Larg Ma Ave
Kaspar
CROWN
Owen
McDowell
Nick wReAthh
N. H
Armat Moving Picture Co
ARMAT
Arizod AD Asphalt and Mining Co
Gtock
Arizona
Emerson Blane
Ross
Payton At
Burnstine's & & Loan
Pennsylvania Avenue
MEANS OF SALE LISTING ITEMS AND PRICES
Auction style classified item list including firearms furniture instruments animals and household goods with brief notes on condition and offered price. Entries mention Remington typewriters guns driving mare pianos and rolling stock among others offered for cash or cheap by a Washington area office.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Odonnail
U. S. Embroidery Works
F St. Nn
Earnest
Leigh
Church of the Ascension
Norfolker
Smith
Fort Myer
Maines
Lresa Gratis
Academ
Mar
Telport
Witte
Ap- Rig Wild Fef Chan
Rodgkin
Sunn
URAL
Young
Imen Tagure
Queen
Favetta
Atleacrary
Barros-Nhite
John
Barbi
Barli
Boothlack
Butler
Phelps Vlara
Han
District Mercantile CO
Pinehurst
Gutlock Priss
St. My
Spaley
FIM
Trieber
Eleve
Perichat
Girard St
Calvert St
10Th
Hsts
Higgs
Capitel
Park Road
Mt Pleasant
Wagea
Robt. Smart
Ceell
Wowan Run
Cali
Nth
Wulard St
LA Ave
Washington Heights
Catvert St
Center St
Mt Pleas
Douglas
N. Royal St
Alex
Peyton At
Alexandtia
Whith
Smal
Reis
Ae House Barbishop
Hecht & CO
N. Y. Ave
Dyhr
Tre Dupont
R I. Ave
Wyoming
Corcoran St
Bostow
St. Aw
Olympia, S
18Th St
Columbia Cafr
N. J
21St St Nw
Phillipsborn & CO
11Th Et
Henry J. Bacon
Unis
ONGE
16Th St
Cape
14Th St
NJ Ave
Cape Colum
M. Roginsky
Fountain
Weber
Clark
Sers City
A. M
Urs Smith
L1th St
Hewlin's Market
Warrington
M. A. Morrow
Washington Domestic Guild
H ST
11Th St. Nw
Bellboy
Bellman
Cook
Caparlh
Caparlw
17Th Et Nw
17Th St Mw
Ored Maon
1Th St Nw
17Th Nw
Colombia
L St. Nw
L. W. Barnes
Metropolital Hotel
Duka St
United Boys’ Brigade
Harvard St
Algo Pak
J. J
I Sokol Clock Repairing CO
Brisg
Redmond
7th st_nw
St. Bernant
Joss
West Oe
Westerman
Putnam County
Ohio
Maryland
Sth
DH Vorrest Wireless
Missouri
Girard
4Th St
Mall
Wilkinson
19Th St
Aires
Prisilee
Tcacheghest
Sheppard
6Th St
Mass
Mdb
Riverdale
Duke St
Alekandria
Witsell
Goutawat
Wisconsin Ava
Kandel
9Th St
Miss Thornton
Eost
ROOV
McGill Ride
Euclid ST
Gordon
West Market
North Capitol
North Capitol St
Concord 5
Isiz
Conn
Addrera EL Whitcomb
Joe
Mberal
Hoston Bull
Buster
Craig
Work Ave
M. AL Goodchild
Quincey
Carnegie Library
Senate
Diack
Griecom
Boston
L Sts
McLane Ave
C. G. Roomy
Los Price
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