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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1907
Page
17
The notice outlines free small ads for wants up to fifteen words with limits on placement and timing. It lists multiple agency locations for submitting ads including Roe Pharmacy Albany Pharmacy King’s Pharmacy Astoria Pharmacy and others in Northeast and Southeast Washington and Anacostia.
Help wanted ads list a first class dresser and misc positions including stenographer and typist. The notices request ladies and gentlemen for dramatic club, a souvenir postal club box, and practical worker positions with salaries and application details. A stenographic academy promotes short courses for government staff with afternoon sessions.
A crowded help wanted ad page lists barber, porter, waiter, elevator boy, driver, cleaner, and clerk roles. It notes ages and colors for several jobs at Washington area establishments and domestic guilds, with various addresses and contact instructions.
Column of classified advertisements seeking apprentices for dressmaking and tailoring, plus positions for housework, child care, cooking, laundry, and office tasks. Listings specify age, race, wages, and locations around Washington area, with multiple employers offering steady or night shifts and requests for references. Includes roles for white and colored workers, a nurse, stenographers, and millinery help.
A jumble of small ads offers domestic help including a light housework helper, a young white woman for a good home, and experienced maids. Also seeking childcare assistance, boarding requests, and housing help. Alongside, numerous sale notices list items like gas heaters, bicycles, pianos, furniture, pets, clothing, and various household goods with box numbers for responses.
Mixed classified sale items ranging from pianos to furniture and appliances. Listings include Rosewood uprights from 300, Singer Mahogany upright 150, New England upright 155, and other pianos. household goods like dining suites, beds, sewing machines, ranges, coal stoves, and a bicycle. Also notices of items going abroad and small ads with box contact details.
A dense mosaic of small ads includes wanted items and services. Listings cover pets like a brindle and white ball terrier female, household items such as dining room furniture, a rolltop desk and bookcase, a trunk-well made, and a range of services from upholstering to teaching back or clog dancing. Miscellaneous wants mention Spanish dictionaries, Spanish club recruitment, pawn tickets for jewelry, and a barber shop purchase. Names and locations are scattered, including boxes and addresses in NW Washington, Lewinaville, Ballston, and Lincoleton.
Public notices show multiple exchange offers and trades including a $1000 clerk in the Treasury seeking to swap for a stenographer in reclamation service, a table board for vocal lessons, a Remington typewriter trade, a brick house in North for unimproved ground, and two building lots for an automobile. Some entries request direct appointments and emphasize shorthand work.
A crowded list of lost articles and found items from a Washington page includes a horse boot, hand bag, yellow suitcase, gold wedding ring, parasol, purse, and various dogs and small valuables. Multiple addresses and rewards are noted, with various contact points like 14th and G streets, 2146 I Street, and 910 McPherzon. Also several "SITUATIONS WANTED" classifieds for domestic work, carriage drivers, and skilled trades.
A jumble of classified ads offers furniture for a 14 room house, Sea Foam Baking Powder, a city livery business for ill health sale, textile goods and outfits, trimming for millinery work, real estate partnership and loan opportunities, patent and trademark services, used automobiles, and dental and prosthetic services. The notices mention BOX addresses, cash offers, and contact phone numbers.
Classifieds of job seeks from Washington area. numerous listings for female and male workers including drivers porters elevator operators house staff clerks and general laborers. names, addresses, and contact notes scattered. variety of positions across domestic service construction and delivery roles. include NEAT-APPEARING YOUNG COLORED MEN and roles in hotels offices and stores.
Situations wanted ads from a colored community list many roles including chambermaids cooks housekeepers companions and nannies. Entries specify race by color and offer positions in private families hotels or domestic guilds with various wages and locations around Washington area.
A long column of classified notices lists numerous positions for laundresses maids nannies nurses and other domestic workers. It details wages addresses and recruiters from Washington area agencies urging women to apply at offices or by mail with references.
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