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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1906
Page
8
The notice outlines free to public want ads under fifteen words in email columns with one ad per game day per person, and paid business ads. It lists agency locations across Northwest Northeast Southeast and Southwest districts, and specifies posting times and delivery to The Post via multiple pharmacies and stores for a five cent per ad service.
Classified style notice list from a historic Washington paper offering positions and agent work. Items include a traveling agent for embroidery samples, manager and boarding-house roles, teaching lessons, theatrical amateurs, stenography school ads, and many job requests across Philadelphia and New York connections. Includes addresses and contact points like Ziegler O., Embroidery Wars, and local businesses seeking salesmen, clerks, drivers, and tradespeople.
A collage of job ads seeking night clerks and office helpers in New York City, plasterers, an office boy, railway workers, a rapid penman assistant, a salesman for Americana, frame sales, high class solicitors, store workers, waiters, clerks, and nonunion compositors. Includes addresses, box numbers, and wage ranges.
Classified notices seek maids cooks nurses and tutors in Washington areas including Northwest and near downtown. Jobs offer training, home work, or private housework with varied wages and part time or full time shifts. Apply at multiple street addresses and box numbers indicated.
A dense classified page lists numerous job ads and notices for houseworkers, nurses, seamstresses, and shop staff. Entries specify white and colored applicants, live-in and day work, wages from 20 dollars monthly, and locations around Washington with addresses such as Mintwood Place and 12th Street. Several postings seek manicuring students, skirt hands, sales staff, and apprentices, plus offers for lodging and instruction, reflecting a period labor market with explicit gender and race notes and selective qualifications.
A jumble of small notices from a historical newspaper pages seeking cash for used items and services. Buyers are leafleting options from furniture to clothing to carpentry, with offers, contact hints, and brief requests for specific objects or work.
Situations and help wanted. 204 17th St NW advertises the Washington Domestic Guild at 804 17th St NW two doors above H St with phone Main 1345. It promises easy access to registered servants and a greater choice for those who failed to find good help elsewhere.
Help wanted ads seek hotel and boarding house staff across roles from cooks and chambermaids to chauffeurs and butlers at 804 17th St NW. Listings emphasize experience, neat appearance, white or colored workers, private families, hotels, and recurring registrations for summer positions with good references.
Various used goods offered for cash including a graphophone set with records and case, walnut dining table, oak bed, oak dresser, rocking chairs, parlor tables, cash register, steamer trunk, square piano, lady's coat size 36, Indian Navajo rugs and more. Advertised locations include 9th Street NW and Mass Ave NW with buyers from Baltimore and Herndon.
A terse notice urges honest cheerful effort in the interest of members and invites individuals to register for available positions, including a contact telephone number Main 1345.
An assortment of ads offers items in excellent or good condition at low prices. Items include typewriters from Remington Underwood and New Century, a white marble statue of Venus, a Galt stock lamp, Brahma cockerel, rain coat, Florence medical battery, sewing machine, Corona Royal camera, darkroom equipment, mattress and mahogany hall tree, and assorted chairs. Contact details and addresses provided.
Classified sale listing with multiple items including a camera, five MCEDES 15 model bikes, two fine purebred bucks, thoroughbred chickens, antique furniture, a mahogany bureau, walnut sideboard, a piano, a violin, a sewing machine, a desk, a drip coffee maker among others. Includes contact details and locations such as 1508 G St NW and 1533 5th St NW with office references and box numbers.
Do you want to sell or buy a business Read the daily paper first to learn the best sources In Washington the largest advertiser is Taylor See the Taylor column for legitimate business enterprises and guidance before any sale or purchase.
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