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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1906
Page
29
A long list of classified notices outlines free small advertisements in the Washington Post, with rules on limits and placement. It includes agency drop points, fees for paid ads, and sample lines for help wanted and services across several districts and pharmacies.
A dense set of classified ads seeks general housework girls and boys, cooks, glaziers, printers, and tradesmen. Listings include colored and white applicants, chauffeurs, porters, waitresses, and sewers. Multiple Washington DC addresses and contact notes appear, offering varying hours, pay, and duties across households and small businesses.
Classified notes list numerous help wanted ads for general housework and related domestic roles in Washington DC neighborhoods. Entries describe live-in and daily positions, cooks, nannies, cleaners, and colored workers with various hours, references, and location details such as Mount Pleasant, Park Road NW, 14th Street, Irving Street, and Calvert Street.
Classified help wanted notices list numerous positions including butler, cook, baker, coachman, driver, elevator man, watchman, janitor, machinist, florist, hotel clerk, chambermaid, and others. Entries specify race notes and varied references with addresses chiefly around 804 17th street NW and related nearby streets.
A historic classified list seeks female chambermaids, cooks, housekeepers, dressmakers, companions, and nurses. Advertisements offer positions in private families and schools at addresses around 804 17th Street NW and nearby blocks, emphasizing neat appearance, experience, and good references. Several roles specify American or colored women, with notes on sewing, language, and hospital training.
Job ads from Washington Domestic Guild call for chambermaids cooks nurses and waitresses of various races and ages at 804 17th St NW and 1 11th St NW. Listings specify wages from 12 to 25 monthly, stay nights and nights off, private families and city postings, and emphasis on experience references and neat appearance.
A scanned classifieds page lists a range of wants and offers including a second hand cook stove a typewriter a showcase a bicycle a drop leaf sewing machine and requests for a real estate broker to sell a license and a upright piano stand amid terse contact BOX references and partial addresses from this office dated Sept 14 1889.
Notice invites members to register for a guild position. Provides contact at Main 1345 telephone and the address 204 17th Street Northwest for further steps. The tone emphasizes honesty, cheerful effort, and the expectation of active membership.
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