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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1906
Page
8
A public notice outlines free advertising rules for small want ads in columns, detailing word limits, timing, payment rules, and agency delivery points. It lists multiple area pharmacies and stores as ad drop-off locations across Washington, D C, urging readers to submit notices before deadlines.
Classified advertisement listing multiple positions and applicants for varied domestic, clerical, and skilled roles in Washington. Includes apprentices, stenographers, apprentices, barbers, porters, salesmen, cooks, housemaids, chambermaids, nurses, governesses, and general housework workers with locations around 7th street NW to Capitol area.
Situations and help wanted advertisement for domestic servants. Promotes the Guild at 804 17th Street NW two doors above H Street, offering a large registry of available servants and a telephone contact Main 1345. Emphasizes ease in finding good help and highlights the guild as a source of trusted domestic workers.
Local notices list numerous positions for chambermaids, cooks, housekeepers, laundresses, companions, nurses, and stenographers. Emphasis on neat appearance, good references, and residency at 804 17th St NW with a few other addresses. several white and colored applicants sought for private homes and offices.
A sprawling 20th century help-wanted column offering jobs for bakers bellhops butlers chauffeurs drivers janitors watchmen clerks and chambermaids. Many listings specify young colored or American workers with references and apply at 804 17th street northwest or nearby addresses in renewed solicitations.
Classifieds list jobs including a colored woman seamer at 1103 21st St NW, seamstresses at Dumbarton Ave NW and East Capitol St, a reliable servant girl, stenographer positions at Washington Loan and Trust Co and patent attorney office, a live-in stenographer and clerk, a penman stenographer, a female typist, Palais Royal manager posting, and theatrical staff forPrincess Bonn opera with evening opportunities at 1811 18th St NW and Corcoran Building location.
An urgent guild notice calls for honest cheerful effort from members and invites readers to register for available positions at the address 804 17th Street NW with telephone Main 1345.
Wanted ads request female waist hand experienced no gross taxes apply. Address box 249 this office. Also waitress colored references 1421 K NW. 7 waitress experienced white 507 12th St apply at once.
A-LADIS provides perfect fitting pattern cuts at 1220 G St NW for 75 cents. other ads include paid for furniture, bric a brac, and stove sales. Schwartz opens a new menswear store at 2204 14th St NW offering full dress suits. other lines advertise rug weaving, freight packing, and cottage rental inquiries.
A garbled collection of want ads seeking items and services. Entries include an underwood typewriter with price and location details, a gas range second hand in good condition, a government clerk seeking openings, a cigar store price and location, a teaching position for algebra geometry and history with salary, a lady seeking gowns and feathers, a showcase for sale, furniture for cash, an adoption notice for a male child, a second hand bicycle with price, and a pair of pointer pups for sale. Many entries reference box numbers and street addresses.
A long string of mixed advertisements lists items for sale and services offered. Includes livestock and draft horse requests, store rental, typewriters, furniture, pianos, dishes, fixtures, clothing, jewelry, and home goods. Also requests for cash payments, sales, and items like pianos, sewing machines, and lighting. Boxes and contact notes indicate responses via office.
Classified ads list household items and personal goods for sale or rent in Washington. Items include furniture pieces like a walnut sideboard with marble top, a light broadcloth coat, a tuxedo suit, a bedroom suite, and an organ. Also noted are a lifetimes opportunity plane for sale, a cook stove, a kit of tools, animals, and a Kodak camera for developing photos. Contact names and addresses appear for each listing.
A dense OCR list of lost items and rewards. Items include a fox terrier with black face and white markings, a gold locket with monogram, a black astrakhan muff, eyeglasses and cases, a brown suede purse, a pearl necklace, a gold bracelet, rings, a mink neckpiece, and a pocketbook. Locations referenced include Washington DC area streets and hotels with instructions to return to owners or offices for rewards.
Classified advertisement offering sale of a restaurant and related business interests. Includes mentions of secured notes, potential investments, and inquiries to contact G. W. Eva in New Orleans and a Fisher agency listing. Reads like a fragmented early 20th century business opportunity notice with multiple sellers and vague terms.
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