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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1906
Page
95
Free advertising for want ads offered in The Post with limits on daily entries and hours. Agencies listed at drug stores across Washington area charge five cents per advertisement and direct letters should avoid initials only.
A garbled help wanted page lists positions such as agents for distributing embroidery samples in New York, a manager for boarding house care, teachers for banjo lessons, amateur theater roles, stenography, and other job listings. Mentions 619 F St NW and 2140 Shett NW, with various hourly and monthly pay notes and address references.
Fragmented help wanted notices listing duties from night clerk to plasterer, office boy, railroad labor, book salesman, store frames and other postings. Includes addresses and box numbers with several ungrammatical lines and partial details. Named firms include Clarke & Courts, The Clerks Publishing Co., and Butterick Publishing Co.
A long list of help wanted ads and servant notices in Washington detailing positions for maids, cooks, dressmakers, housekeepers, skept services and domestic workers. Entries include ages, qualifications, and contact details such as street addresses, phone numbers, and box references.
A dense clip lists numerous domestic helper, nurse, joyner, milliner, and sales positions including light housework, laundress, nurse aides, manicurists, seamstresses, and waitresses. Entries show various employers, locations around Washington DC, and notes on requirements such as reliability, references, or training.
A jumble of small ads and services. Embroideries, slippers, shawls, patterns, and dressmaking offer ready-made items. Requests for salvage and resale of carpets, rugs, and furniture. Secondhand goods buying and selling including boats, stock shares, tinder listings, and need ads. Various trade notices, tailoring, and miscellaneous offerings appear with contact hints.
SITUATIONS AND HELP WANTED. ads for indoor and domestic staff at 804 17th St NW and 604 17th St NW, with diverse roles from cooks and chambermaids to butlers and drivers. Listings seek experienced, well-referenced men and women white and Colored, hotel and private family positions, registrations urged at Washington Domestic Guild.
A cluttered sale notice lists a graphophone horn cabinet with records, a Walnut dining table, oak bedstead, dressers, rocking chairs, parlor tables, a cash register, skim milk, a piano, a ladies coat, Indian curios, doors, a sideboard and other second hand goods with prices, sellers and addresses across Washington and Baltimore.
A crowded help wanted column offers many positions for chambermaids cooks waitresses companions nurses and more. Listings specify American and colored applicants with good references and apply details centered on 804 17th street nw or nearby 804 11th and 27th streets seeking domestic staff for hotels families or private homes.
A page of classified sale notices lists items including a Crown orchestra grand upright piano for 260 pounds, Remington typewriters at 20 dollars, a white marble Venus statue, Organ fine cost 135 dollars, a Gentlemans coat size 38, Florence medical battery 260 dollars, sewing machine, and camera gear with prices. Several addresses and contact notes appear for each item.
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