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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1906
Page
6
Classified page shows free ads for sale rent wanted and found with limits on daily insertions and hours. It lists agencies in Northwest and Northeast areas and notes proper addressing for initials and mail submissions along with sample help wanted items and employment notices.
A dense old time classified page seeks experienced salesmen and stenographers, many positions across retail and offices. Listings cite references, salaries, and address details for women and men, including a tailor, typist, bookkeeper, waitstaff, and household staff, with instruction and apprenticeship options.
Public notices in the Washington Domestic Guild recruitment ad list extensive requests for competent maids cooks waitresses chambermaids and other staff for private homes hotels and boarding houses. Positions include experienced white and colored workers with references, citywide postings at 804 17th St NW and other nearby addresses, with varied wages and night duties.
Classified column offering waitresses cooks and domestic help including white and colored applicants many at specific addresses in Washington with notes on wages duties and hours. also miscellaneous ads for pattern cutting rug weaving and antique furniture Repair services and building removal of materials seeking labor and equipment.
Classified ad list seeking positions for young educated American women in domestic service clerical and hospitality fields. Listings include valets, watchmen, companions, nurses, maids, cooks, dressmakers, laundresses, housekeepers, and stenographers with emphasis on references and hotel or private family work. Subscription required for Guild assistance.
Announcement invites members to register for guild positions at 804 17th Street Northwest. It includes a contact telephone Main 1345 and urges honest cheerful effort in members' interests.
Two good second hand bicycles offered for sale near 27 CAL vin, Si D st aw with contact 760 Main. A boy's wheel also available cheap after 5 p.m. at 319 st ne. Public sale notes indicate low prices and flexible hours for viewing.
A rummage sale of household items listed by a leaving city advertiser includes a three room MOF apartment furniture set with iron bed and a piano with a year's reason, also harnesses, a caligraph typewriter, a grand clock, and numerous personal items. Prices are mostly bargain level, with several items like a Rambler Runabout, a Gurney wagon, and a Swan table noted for quick sale.
Numerous classifieds seek exchanges for shorthand lessons, goods, and services. Entries include a RAMBLER RUNABOUT car for sale or trade, piano storage, a Remington typewriter trade, a yacht for purchase, a clerkship exchange, and various wanted items such as bicycles, skates, a horse timer, and a range of personal effects. District listings mention Washington DC addresses and local businesses, with many notices offering cash or board in exchange for items or lessons.
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