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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1906
Page
8
Public notice outlines free classified advertising rules and intake locations in Washington DC area. Limits: one free ad per day per person, no business ads without payment, multiple insertions allowed if needed, deadlines and mail options noted. Agencies listed with drug stores and pharmacies across wards.
Local managers and agents sought to travel, distribute samples, and recruit workers. Work and expenses provided. earnings up to $1 per day in selling handmade embroidery. Call or address the listed firm for details.
A clutter of 19th century classifieds seeks tenors and sopranos at the Church of the Ascension, laundry workers, waitstaff, chambermaids, and notaries. Also sought are stenographers, draughtsmen, clerks, drivers, sales and service roles with room, salary, and permanent prospects in a dense urban job market.
A dense paste of job listings and domestic help notes from 1920s or 1930s Washington DC. Advertised roles include solicitor, manicurist, meat cutter, porter, office staff, stenographers, clerks, showroom and factory workers, cleaners, cooks, maids, and governesses. Many entries specify locations such as 631 Pa. Ave, 2615 Pat. Ave, Ebitt House, Lincoln Hotel, and The Cott age Market. The tone is brisk and directive, urging early applications, wage ranges, and quick interviews. The page reflects a labor market with mixed urban occupations and household service in need of reliable workers.
The page lists numerous domestic jobs including housemaids cooks laundresses and nurses with details on duties hours and locations across Washington DC. Entries mention Stoneleigh Court 707 and various streets indicating a bustling market for live-in and day workers with references and good moral requirements.
Miscellaneous classified items offer quick sale to buyer M Scheuer who will visit Washington on February 6 to purchase gowns, jewelry, furs, and diamonds. Listings include fur coats, furniture, tailoring services, and various wanted ads with prices, locations, and contact references.
Advertises the guild offering many registered servants at 804 17th Street Northwest two doors above H Street. Provides telephone Main 1345 for contact and emphasizes superior options for those who failed to find good help elsewhere.
Classified ad listing many positions for chambermaids, waitresses, cooks, laundresses, nannies, and general house workers. Notices seek experienced white or colored staff of various ages for private families and hotels, with weekly or monthly wages and night shifts. Apply at 804 17th st NW or nearby addresses. some postings require English, references, or stay-night duties.
A long OCR list offers job ads for bakers, bellmen, hotel staff, drivers, coaches, janitors, watchmen, and clerks. Many entries request “young colored man” or “American” with good references, payment at 17th Street NW and nearby addresses.
A long list of classified notices seeks chambermaids cooks cleaners nurses and companions of various races and nationalities. Applicants must be attractive neat appearing and bring good references applying at 804 or 804 17th Street NW or 604 5th Street NW. A subscriber note states guild patrons receive help securing servants.
Classified notices advertise CIGAR certificates instruments violins baby strollers and furniture, typewriters cash registers and office equipment. Buyers seek cheap or easy terms for scales safes wardrobes dressers and a Mauser extension grip. Items for sale include a bed, a brass bed, a 15 foot launch hull, wagons and farm implements. Address and phone details are provided at several listings.
Noted in the guild rules, honest cheerful effort in members' interests is required. Register to seek a position by calling Main 1345.
Public notice style classifieds advertise sale of folding doors bicycle piano fin boxes and chairs. Items include a quartered oak card of 2 cent, a hand mirror, a Remington typewriter, fool tables, oak glove cabinet, shelves and counters, a private sale housekeeper furniture, a slightly used organ, a dress suit and overcoat, a Conn cornet, a collie pups champion Chris blood, a bedroom suite, a pool table, a Diamond worth 13 and other misc items across addresses including 18th st ne 912 N ave and 613 14th at ne.
A dated classified column lists furniture and household items for sale or inquiry. Items include a walnut bedstead, a large trunk and field glass, a safe, a coffee table, a sideboard, a mirror, a roll top desk, a go cart, a parasol, a phonograph ticket, and a rubber tree plant. Locations span 1221 a ave, 413 st ne, 1326 14th at, 503 Ith st se, and Alexandria, Va. Prices indicate cheap or bargain offerings.
Numerous items offered at low prices including self feeding stove sideboard refrigerator wardrobe dining table and chairs large Sexton furnace and pipe china paintings square piano mahogany case and more. ads list contact numbers and addresses across mass ave ne st ne nw and 14th st sw with items from clocks jewelry to bicycles and farm tools.
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