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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1906
Page
6
A long column of want ads and job notices offers positions in sales, teaching, real estate, domestic service, and skilled trades. It lists agencies and pharmacies for submitting free ads, plus multiple opportunities for salesmen, clerks, and craftsmen with varying qualifications across Washington areas and nearby locales.
The page lists numerous employment notices and domestic helper ads from a Washington DC area office, including stenographers, real estate salesmen, machine operators, clerks, wait staff, cooks, chambermaids, general houseworkers, dressmakers, governesses, millinery workers, and nurses. Entries specify positions, locations, and contact or box numbers, with various wages and requirements.
Help wanted ads list numerous positions at private homes hotels and boarding houses for summer, with white and colored chambermaids waitresses cooks and other staff. Listings call 804 17th st NW for applications and booking services, with special rates for hotels and boarding houses.
Classified notices advertise numerous positions in private households and hotels. Listings include chambermaids waitresses nurses companions laundresses and cooks with references, American or colored applicants, all seeking work at 17th and 804 th streets NW and nearby avenues. Subscriptions to the Domestic Guild required to access staffing help.
A chaotic classified list offers bicycles, outboard gear, wardrobes, desks, bookcases, ice boxes, sewing machines, violins, piano, antique furniture, mirrors, a remington typewriter, a gun, and various household items for sale or trade. Items include a 36 inch bicycle, an air outfit for a physician, a graphophone, a printing press, and multiple dress and fashion items. Includes contact notes and location details across multiple Washington DC streets.
Classified snippets show exchanges for real estate and household goods, clothing, lessons, and services. Numerous lost items including watches, purses, jewelry, coins, and a dog, with locations across Washington area and addresses like 1735 N H St NW and 1443 Girard St NW.
A clipped mixed page of job notices lists positions for nurses young girls to assist with housework and child care, a cook, office work, saleswomen, dressmakers, and tailoring staff. Several entries specify ages, white or colored applicants, and locations around 14th and 16th streets, with contact details like telephone numbers and room numbers.
Notice invites members to register for a guild post with a claim of honesty and cheerful effort. It provides the address 804 17th Street Northwest and the phone Main 1345 for contact.
A garbled mix of trade solicitations and offers: builders supplies, old carpets woven into reversible rugs, roach killer, dressmaking, furniture buyers, and a variety of items for sale or trade. Includes contact notes and phone numbers for N J avenue, Ist nw, 123 Gh et, 1012 Ist nw, 208 K stne, and 625 Louisiana.
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