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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1906
Page
30
Public notice outlines free want ads with limits and deadlines. It lists agency locations and pharmacies where ads can be left or mailed for five cents each, noting no ads after 9 PM and no Saturday after 3 PM postings.
Classified notices solicit agents to sell handmade embroidery with earning potential of up to ten dollars daily. Also seeking managers, boarding house keeper, teacher for banjo, entertainers, stenographers, and various skilled workers with pay details and contact boxes. Includes multiple job ads across sales, real estate, domestic service, and trades.
A jumble of classified help wanted notices including night clerk positions, plasterers, office boy, railroad work, rapid penman assistant, salesmen, frame shop, store boy, waiter, white and colored help, and printer shop roles. Listings show locations, references, and pay hints like weekly sums and hourly rates, with several boxes for responses.
A dense list of domestic service notices fills columns, offering positions from chambermaids and cooks to housekeepers and dressmakers. Notices request experienced workers, reliable assistants, or training, with various addresses in Washington area and contact methods.
A dense run of early 20th century helpwanted notices seeks housemaids light workers nurses and waitresses all across Washington D C addresses include Mintwood Place Pa Avenue NW University Place and 7th Street NW Employers call for reliable neat and trained workers with white and colored applicants listed for positions from livein housework to manicure and millinery prep roles Several entries specify nights stays references or travel to Buffalo and other locations with ages and wage details where given.
A collage of small ads seeks orders for embroidery waists crochet slippers and shawls. Builders and suppliers offer brick and frame buildings for takedown and removal. Second hand goods copper rugs furniture and office equipment are bought sold or exchanged. Items include clothing patterns underwood typewriter seats and boat and canoes for sale or trade. Services: tutoring civil service coaching catering and tailoring. Addresses and phone numbers populate many notices.
SITUATIONS AND HELP WANTED. Readable ads solicit experienced servants for private families and hotels. Posts at 804 17th St NW and 604 17th St NW offer chambermaids, cooks, butlers, waitresses, maids, drivers, and related staff with references. Telephone 1345 for registration and bookings.
Numerous for sale notices across categories. GRAPHOPHONE cabinet with records, stereos, bikes, dining room table, dressers, rocking chairs, cash register, skim milk offer, piano by Gabler Bros, ladies coat, Indian curios, safes, sideboard and other household goods. Various addresses in Washington DC area including 1111 S st NW and 1829 Q St NW. also Baltimore Md listing. Neat, mixed classifieds with prices like $50, $6, and other figures.
Classified help wanted ads seeking chambermaids waitresses cooks and companions with good refs. Many entries specify 804 17th street or nearby addresses. profiles include educated refined American or colored women seeking positions in private families hotels or offices. notes Washington Domestic Guild membership required for guild assistance.
A garish classified page listing a Crown Orchestra grand piano in excellent condition for £260, an Underwood typewriter and a Remington No 4 for $31, a white marble Venus statue offered cheap, a 135 dollar fine organ at $25, a Brahma cock, a gentleman’s coat size 38, a Florence medical battery Goood 48 new at $260, a sewing machine offer, a Korona Royal camera 8x7 with lens, a Premo camera complete with darkroom, mahogany parlor chairs at low prices, and more miscellaneous items with street addresses and contact hints.
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