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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1906
Page
37
Free advertising guidance for wants, with limits and deadlines. Promotes free single ads per day per person, paid business ads, and multiple insertions if needed. Lists agency locations and pharmacies across Washington area for submitting ads.
Numerous classified ads solicit salesmen, agents, and helpers across fields. Listings urge experienced and inexperienced workers, from engravers to bookkeepers, chauffeurs to elevator conductors, with references, commissions, and steady pay in Washington area offices and shops.
A dense assortment of job ads seeks wait staff housemaids chambermaids cooks and general houseworkers. Listings include clerks Catholic ladies to sell publications six state managers for Eastern territory and domestic service roles with varied hours and pay. addresses refer to Washington DC area including NW entries.
Situations and help wanted listing at 804 17th St NW offers domestic guild services with male and female roles for hotels, boarding houses, private families. Advertises numerous positions including butlers, cooks, chambermaids, laundresses, governesses, dressmakers and waitresses with wage details and contact at 84 17th St NW or 304 17th St NW.
Readable job listings seek experienced white waitresses and domestic workers for cafes and private families in Washington. Many positions include hotel, chambermaid, housekeeper, nurse, companion, governess, and Butler roles with neat appearance, good references, and immediate or coming summer start. Apply at 804 17th St NW and nearby addresses. some ads specify wages and hours.
A call urges subscribers and patrons to join the Washington Domestic Guild to obtain help in securing servants. The message stresses honesty and cheerful effort in members’ interests and invites registration for available positions, listing Main 1345 as the contact.
Readable lines show a jumble of ads for pool tables incubators second hand goods and services. Notable items include a pool table 44 by 98 inches labeled as new and priced with outlines for other second hand items such as an incubator office desk roll top and various apparel and riding horses for hire. The text includes contact addresses references to Newton Street Brookland and W Washington area codes plus mentions of a state make incubator and civil service training.
Classified notices show offers to buy a Kodak in good condition at 01 New Jersey Ave NW and requests for an outside spray shield, rummage sale benefit for Wimodaughsis with pickup, part time book work, a lunch room cabinet, a first class engineer's level, bookcases, brown Leghorn and Pekin duck eggs, ostrich plumes project, and a light oak bedstead for sale.
A long list of secondhand items offered from clothing to furniture and sporting goods. Go carts go coal stoves mirrors cameras violins bath cabinets and more with prices and pickup details scattered through the ad. Listings include Go Cart small modern models watch chains vintage violins and a queen of items in a busy urban sale setting.
A jumble of barter offers and classifieds requests including silver pitcher and porcelain items for bureau or desk, a Damark table cover, complete room outfits and stereopticon, a painting lesson ad, room and board for a helper, poker chips for reading matter, a Campbell cylinder press, a bird dog and shotgun exchange, rare coin listings, a trap drive offer, a bicycle-lamp typewriter item, oak carved chairs for sale, shorthand instruction exchange, a two horsepower electric motor for lamp or power, and an old photography ad, all seeking trades, sales, or services in Salisbury area listings.
A collage of classified lines lists water and gas range parts, a folding Kodak, a lady’s bicycle trade, apartment rentals, business opportunities, furniture for sale, an insurance style host selling job, a New Orleans race tip, and a garbage burner company. Names and addresses include Fairmont street, Carlyle, 1213 Me, G street, box ads, and domestic firms.
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