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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1906
Page
29
Free advertising policy explained with word limits and submission rules. Agencies listed for want ads across multiple DC areas, with locations at drug stores and pharmacies. Instructions include time limits, initials handling, and delivery options through postal and agency channels.
A flood of classified hiring notices seeks salesmen real estate clerks retailers and domestic help across Washington and New York. Listings invite experienced proprietors to recruit men with references and offer commissions steady pay and advancement plus room for growth in fields from embroidery to elevator work and stenography.
Classified listings show numerous job ads for cooks, chambermaids, houseworkers, waitresses, nurses, and other domestic roles in Washington DC. Many entries request experience, references, and specific hours, with positions across hotels, private homes, and offices, including French and German speaking gentries and general housework for families of various sizes.
Classified ad from Washington Domestic Guild at 804 17th St NW and 17th St listings seeks competent help for hotels and private households. Offers special rates for hotels and boarding houses, diverse positions including butlers, maids, cooks, chambermaids, governesses, nurses, and kitchen staff. Includes contact details and instruction to apply at 804 17th St NW.
Classifieds seek waitresses, cooks, butlers, maids, chauffeurs, and other workers for private homes, hotels, and schools. Many positions request neat appearance, good references, and willing to start immediately. locations include 17th Street NW, 7th, 17th, and 27th streets NW with varied roles and hours. Opportunities target American, colored, or foreign-language skilled staff for domestic service.
A dated notice urges subscribers or patrons to seek the guilds aid in securing servants. It warns against misrepresentation and urges cheerful effort in member interests. Registration is requested, with a contact telephone number Main 1345.
A mix of classified notices lists pool tables incubators and office desks for sale, secondhand saddles and riding horses for hire, and clothing buyback offers. Also included are typewriter and stenographer service ads, civil service tutoring, and a note seeking a buyer for a white woman unable to work. The items originate from Washington DC area listings, with addresses and contact boxes for responses.
Classified items offer second hand Kodak, outside spraint prowcase, old clothes for rummage sale benefit, book work extra daily, mile cabinet, wheel, engineer level, bookcases, brown Leghorn and Pekin ducks for setting, ostrich plumes, a nice light oak bedstead. Addresses given for contact.
Mixed classified items including baby carriage, go cart, walnut bureau, beds, lamps, violin, camera gear, dining room table, sideboard, china closet, and assorted apparel. Numerous small household goods and tools offered at bargain prices by this office, with contact via BOX H S this office and local addresses for inquiries.
A collage of exchange notices and small ads from Washington area listings. Items include a silver pitcher and porcelain items for a bureau or desk, a large antique damask table cover, complete room furnishings for lodgers with stereopticon, and various trades. Also listed are a water color painting lesson offer, room and board exchange for help with chamber work, poker chips for reading matter or plants, a Campbell cylinder press, birds dogs and a Winchester shotgun for chickens, and a series of numismatic and miscellaneous item notices. Contacts include Andrew, J Will Proctor, Charles H. Grafton, and local office boxes.
A collage of old Washington classifieds includes gas range repairs and parts, a Kodak item, a ladies bicycle for fur neckpiece, apartment ads for The Carlyle, and multiple business opportunity notes. Also present are requests to buy or sell furniture, employment offers, and domestic help wanted with contact cues and box numbers.
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