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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1906
Page
49
A historical notice describes free advertising in The Post columns for wants found, for sale, and related items with limits on word count and submission times. It lists agency drop-off points at drug stores across Northwest and nearby districts, plus rules about initials and mail delivery.
Classified listing shows a collage of help wanted and staffing notices. Offers include travel agents, embroidery sales, boarding house management, teaching lessons, drama participants, typewriter operator, and various trades. Names and addresses in Philadelphia New York Washington appear with compensation hints and contact cues.
A collage of help wanted ads listing positions for a night clerk sober man office boy waiter carpenter plasterers and salesmen with locations in New York City Richmond VA and Galveston TX plus graphic labor roles for railroad work and clerks. Includes nonunion compositor and Monotype keyboard operator posts with pay ranges and posting boxes for inquiries.
A dense classified column lists numerous domestic job openings in Washington areas. Positions include cooks, chambermaids, dressmakers, governesses, general houseworkers, and nurses with varied requirements and pay. many offerings specify color or experience, with addresses and contact hints for applicants.
A dense classified page lists numerous domestic work opportunities including housemaids, light housework, nurses, waitresses, linen work, and manicurists. It includes positions for white and colored women, with details on hours, wages, locations such as Mintwood Place and 1226 Conn Ave, and notes on training, references, and travel to Buffalo.
A ledger of miscellaneous ads listing requests and offers: embroidery waists crochet items scarves shawls and pattern cuts from Desinging Parlors. brick and frame buildings to be removed. old carpets woven into reversible rugs. fur niture and house goods buyers seeking cash. dressmaking patterns and tailor services. sought items include books bookcases and office furniture. secondhand boats motors and bicycles for sale or trade. various trade and service ads from Baum’s Furnishiture Shop and other businesses.
Situations and help wanted. 204 17th St NW advertises the Washington Domestic Guild at 804 17th St NW two doors above H St. The notice promises a wide choice of registered servants and urges applicants who failed elsewhere to come in. Telephones listed as Main 1345.
Rental ads list numerous positions for hotel and private families including cooks, chambermaids, waitresses, ushers, maids, and drivers. The Washington Domestic Guild at 804 17th St NW invites applicants and stresses subscriber eligibility to secure staff with good references for hotels, boarding houses, and private homes.
Classified items include graphophone components with cases and records, a walnut dining table, oak bed and dresser set, rocking chairs, parlor tables, a cash register, a steam trunk, a piano in good condition, a lady's coat size 36, Navajo rugs, a large Indian cursor, safe, sideboard and dressing table, and a secondhand grocery wagon. Prices listed, locations in Northwest and nearby areas.
A brief guild notice urges honest cheerful effort and invites members to register for positions. It includes a contact telephone Main 1345 for interested individuals to call.
An assortment of items offered in brisk classified style including typewriters like Remington and Underwood in good to excellent condition, a white marble statue of Venus, cameras, a Sonnara room, sewing machines, a Brahma cockerel, raincoat, a Florence Medical battery, and a mahogany hall tree all with contact addresses and prices. The listings cover buyers in Heaton Takoma Park, Glancarlyo Virginia, and Washington area addresses with values from 5 to 200 dollars.
Classified listing shows a miscellany of items for sale including a camera and polo ponies, five mixed breed horse breed bucks, appliences, antique mahogany desk and sideboard, room furnishings, jewelry and musical instruments. Distinct entries include a diamond ring, an old violin, a piano, a loom, books, a period dresser, and various small household goods with contact notes and locations in Washington area listings.
Do you want to buy or sell a business read the daily paper for a convincing guide. See Taylor the man you must contact before selling or buying a business. Watch the advertising column for legitimate business enterprises.
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