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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1906
Page
8
Free advertising in small columns allowed for personal notices for up to fifteen words. Ads must be non business or paid for if commercial. Notices include job opportunities, sales, rentals, and services from various local merchants and agencies. Entries reference multiple pharmacies, shops, and employment listings across Washington DC areas.
Classified help wanted notes seeking colored and white workers for kitchens, chambermaids, cooks, waitresses, laundry, general housework, and childcare. Positions listed include hotel, club, and domestic roles with varied ages and qualifications. some include immediate start and one for a French teacher abroad study background. Local addresses and employer names appear with many requests for references and experience.
Feature profile notes an expert needle woman offering Mexican drawnwork, lingerie waists, fine underwear, and infants garments. She will take orders for table linen and house wears and invites Guild members to view samples at the office reachable via 804 17th St. She promises skilled work and customer satisfaction.
Classified ads seek experienced butlers cooks chambermaids laundresses and other domestic workers of all races for private Washington families. Positions include night shifts good references salaries up to 28 dollars weekly and 20 dollars monthly with many at 804 17th street northwest for interviews.
Classified help wanted items list positions and genders seeking readers students and workers. Includes occult study club enrollments experienced seamstresses salesladies stenographers teachers and a reader girl with various ages and locations in Washington area listings.
Classified ad list offering chambermaid, nurse, companion, clerk, dressmaker, cook, laundress, maid, waitress, stenographer, and other domestic and office positions. Emphasis on experienced, neat appearing applicants, with references. several ads specify American or colored women, and note guild subscriber requirements for employment services. Posts give multiple 17th Street NW addresses for applications and telephone contact.
Classified notices offer second hand items including a private cottage rental, typewriters, bicycles, furniture, and various household goods. Also requests for a cigar store, a partner with capital, and a government clerk transfer inquiry. Ads include animals, pianos, guns, violins, and a trot of miscellaneous requests and sales from Washington DC area.
Classified item list from a historic Portland area paper shows sewing machines, a typewriter, jugs, a tuxedo suit, a computing scale, show cases, a billiard table, white male puppies, portable ovens, pets and animals, birds, dogs, cats, reptiles, and kennels. Multiple items include addresses and quick sale notes with prices and contact cues.
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