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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1906
Page
43
Public notice invites free want ads in the Washington Post columns with limits on frequency and timing. Advertisers should use full names or care of a person or box, not initials, and may place ads via agency drugstores or by mail.
Local managers wanted to travel distribute samples and employ agents. Positions offer work and expenses. Ziegles on Foust street Philadelphia advertises opportunities with a nationwide branch. Earn up to 86 dollars weekly selling handmade embroidery work. call or write for details.
Classified notices seek tenors and sopranos for church singing roles. various positions include laundry workers, housemaids, waitresses, notaries, stenographers, clerks, and servants. Employers promise room and pay, with calls or letters to listed addresses and firms in the District.
A dense help wanted listing shows varied positions from magazine solicitor and manicurist to office assistants, stenographers, and a wide array of domestic workers. It cites locations around Washington DC streets such as Pa. Ave, 631 Pa. Ave, E Cap St, and 14th St with roles including sales, clerical, barber, porter, cooks, maids, dressmakers, and laborers. Many postings request early morning, evenings, or night shifts and emphasize experience, references, and willingness to stay nights.
An assortment of domestic help ads appears for Stoneleigh Court and surrounding streets. Listings include housemaids, general houseworkers, laundresses, white and colored applicants, live-in and stay-night options, and nurses or nurse girls for children and infants, with varying refs and hours. Addresses span NW and SE Washington, notably 14th to 50? Sts NW, Md avenues, and local hotels.
Miscellaneous ads list buyers and sellers in Washington with requests to dispose of gowns jewelry diamonds furs seek to purchase or exchange wardrobe items and furniture advertise services and employment options including patterns, tailoring, and domestic help with various contact addresses and time frames.
The guild offers access to registered domestic help with a large selection. Contact 804 17th Street NW, two doors above H Street, or call Main 1345 for details on available servants.
Classified ad column from a Washington newspaper shows varied domestic servant postings. Positions include chambermaids, cooks, laundresses, waitresses, maids, nurses, and general house workers in private families, hotels, and estates. Wages range from monthly sums to per week amounts, with many entries noting staying nights and references.
An assortment of help wanted notices seeks young men and boys for hotel and private service. Positions include bakers chefs bellmen drivers clerks janitors watchmen chauffeurs porters and more all requiring good references. Apply at 17th and 7th streets northwest with details and references.
A long string of classified ads seeks chambermaids waitresses cleaners and companions in Washington with details on appearance age race and experience. Many postings require good references and specify addresses on 17th or 804 17th st nw and nearby streets, urging subscribers of a guild for help.
Miscellaneous classificado items including certificates, cheap offers and wanted goods. Notices seek buyers and sellers for violins scales cash registers furniture radios typewriters and a Mauser grip plus second hand beds wardrobes dressers chests and a launch hull settable. Many items offer cash prices and contact addresses plus office notices.
A bold call from the guild urging members to avoid misrepresentation and pursue honest cheerful effort. Register if you want a position by calling telephone number Main 1345.
A bulletin of sale notices listing various second hand items. Items include safe folding doors, a quartered oak timepiece, a Remington typewriter, fool tables, a store display cabinet, and other furnishings. Also listed are a leather bicycle, a collie pup, a bedroom suite, a pool table, a diamond, and a G. Conn trumpet. Names and addresses approximate from the ad text.
Classified ad list of furniture and items for sale including walnut bedstead, large chest, trunk, field glass, mirror, clock, desk, go cart, parasol, phonograph ticket, safe, sideboard, rack, stove, and baby carriage. Items located in Washington area addresses such as 1221 a Ave NW and 1326 14th St NW with mentions of Alexandria Virginia listings. Prices stated for some items and contact through the newspaper office.
Numerous listings show self feeding stove, sideboard, refrigerator, wardrobe, dining table and chairs. large furnace and pipe. china paintings. piano. bed. grocery store counter. lamp. camera equipment. clothing. bathtubs and bikes. Addresses include 657 Fest ne, 238 Mass ave ne, 3508 N H ave nw, 60 N Y ave nw, 108 C st ne, 126 C st ne, 219 10th st sw, 1140 st, and more. Many items priced to quick sale.
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