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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1906
Page
29
Readable classifieds announce free want ads up to fifteen words per day per person with no business postings. Lists agency dropoffs at drugstores and polices timeliness, while offering paid ads for higher priority positions and services.
Classified rows list applicants and openings across many trades including patent searchers, photographers, salesmen, shop hands, tailors, painters, waiters, stenographers, clerks, and compositors. Entries specify contact details, locations, and basic requirements, reflecting a bustling urban labor market with varied opportunities and wage cues. Includes nonunion and union notes, machine operators, and office work, with several addresses in Washington DC and Galveston Texas.
A long street of classified help wanted notices lists numerous domestic roles from cooks and chambermaids to laundresses and general housework, with multiple white and colored applicants seeking steady work. It includes addresses like 204 17th St NW and 821 F St NW and company names like HALDEMAN and Hist. Telephone, highlighting temporary home care and training classes as well as employment opportunities for young women and elderly individuals.
A dense 1930s style help wanted page lists numerous positions including general housework for a family of three, governess for a three year old needing German and English, millinery apprentices, laundry and light housework for colored and white applicants, nursing and nanny roles, manicure and beauty jobs, sales and skirt work, stenography, tailoring, and office help. Locations include Washington DC streets such as 16th, 14th, 9th, Mintwood Place, and Brightwood with several entries seeking first class or experienced workers and references.
A garbled page fragment lists builders supplies, carpets woven into reversible rugs, ladies pattern fittings, spot cash for furniture and house goods, and various buy/sell notices. It includes contact references, addresses, and scattered item mentions like phonographs, books, and a repair shop, with miscellaneous service and sales offers.
Situations and help wanted advertisement for servants at The Guild located at 304 17th Street Northwest. The ad invites those who failed to find good servants elsewhere to apply at the registry, noting a large choice and many registered skilled staff. Contact information provided as 804 17th Street Northwest two doors above H Street and telephone line Main 1345.
The Washington Domestic Guild advertises an expert needle woman trained in a convent who takes orders for Mexican draymork and handmade lingerie waists fine underwear and infants lavettes. Orders can be placed at 894 17th St with samples available at the guild office as staffing for summer hotels or boarding houses is being booked with special rates.
Numerous help wanted ads solicit chambersmaids cooks waitresses janitors and more from both white and colored applicants. The Washington Domestic Guild at 804 17th St NW promises placement in private families hotels boarding houses and institutions with strong refs and thorough screening.
A compact classified list offers items for sale and services including government job ads, compressed air equipment, two large boxes, sectionals, office furniture, bicycles, printing press, typewriting, piano, mimeograph machine, remington typewriter, organs, and a prize stock light brahma roosters. Contacts include AJR, F G Geighr, and various street addresses in Washington and Baltimore.
A column of sale items from a Washington area listing includes a rain coat for a size 38 gentleman, a Florence Medical battery, a Beving machine, a Korona Royal camera, a complete camera outfit, a mahogany tufted mattress, a typswriter in good condition, a graphophone with records, a baby portable oven, a French plate mirror, a complete parlor set, a portable oven, sanitary couches go carts and bedroom sets, plus a Prince Albert coat and other bargains. Items priced cheap with locations on 4th Street NW, 9th Street NW, 15th Street NW, L Street NW, 10th Street NW, and Box 17 office.
A public notice urges honest cheerful effort in member interests and invites people to register for positions with contact details listed as Telephone Main 1345. The terse notice emphasizes integrity and active participation within the guild.
A mix of items offered: cameras, belts and fife holders, tailor services, live stock, antique furniture, iron safe, go cart, a 2 carat diamond ring and viola, upright piano, pastel Madonna painting, and a lending office listing. Multiple addresses and contact clues included.
Classified fragment listing a Remington typewriter and cheap sewing machine, coats, muff, cape, portable oven, manicure table, and various furniture items for sale. Mentions addresses in Washington DC area and nearby towns, sidewalk pricing, and requests for after hours inquiries. Also notes horse breeding ads and a few vehicle tire offers and rags.
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