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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1906
Page
25
The Washington Post outlines free advertising rules for want ads including word limits and posting times. It lists agency locations for dropping notices and mentions agents and job listings such as agents needed, salespeople, and ethnographer positions with salary expectations and immediate availability.
Classified notices offer stenographers and bookkeepers, skilled trades like tinsmiths and carpenters, and numerous domestic posts. Listings seek experienced saleswomen, waitstaff, chambermaids, cooks, housemaids, and apprentices, with locations around 1220 St NW to 2910 K St NW and Capitol Street areas, plus jobs in printing, publishing, and hotel dining.
Classified note shows multiple help wanted ads including female housekeeper for seven gentlemen, nurse for a two month old, colored woman for sick room and laundry, German girl to care for children, office cleaner, stenographer, teacher, waitress, and various trades. Indicates many positions with locations around Washington area and periods ranging immediate to short term.
Classified list offers two pool tables, a Marlin rifle, razors, hats, wooden packing boxes, a baby grand piano, a Ramble bicycle, a Rosy desk and chairs, a Mosler safe, furniture pieces, a folding cart, and numerous small items. Contact details and times vary, with several items priced and available for quick sale.
Situations and help wanted notice for the Washington Domestic Guild at 804 17th St NW. Highlights include a featured expert needlewoman offering Mexican drawnwork, lingerie waists, wine underwear, and infants layettes. phone contact provided. emphasis on registered, high-quality servant candidates and the guild as the source.
Extensive help wanted ads from Washington Domestic Guild at 804 17th St NW seek competent staff for hotels and boarding houses including chambermaids waitresses cooks and butlers. Listings call for experienced white and colored workers with paths to private families and hotels, many positions offer monthly wages from 12 to 25 dollars and nights stays.
A dense run of 1920s style advertisements seeks chambermaids nurses companions housekeepers and waitresses of various races and ages. Many entries note neat appearance good references and private family or hotel work with locations on 17th street north west and nearby avenues. A notice urges readers to join the Washington Domestic Guild 804 17th St NW and lists a telephony contact Main 1348 along with animal shop ads and a hospital opening.
Multiple notices describe lost items including a black and brown fox terrier male dog with white body and spots, a brown Great Dane, a black leather pocketbook with about $4, and a white dog with no collar. Rewards offered if returned to addresses on 824 G St NE and 1608 Fet, plus items at 8th Street, Woodward & Lothrop, and postal locations.
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