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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1907
Page
6
The Washington Post details free want ads for rent rooms and misc notices, with limits of up to fifteen words per ad and one per person per issue. It lists period agency locations and small delivery charges for their service.
Advertisement seeking three experienced traveling salesmen to join a 1407-strong force selling a Mine to retailers with annual earnings from 5000 to 9000 dollars. Attractive location, permanent positions, box SH Dept. 44 Chicago.
Classified notices show a private family in New York seeking a first class cook who can carve and a butler or cook husband and wife team for a private household. Immediate call collection of details. Also government exam prep and stenography courses advertised with dates and contact addresses.
A dense ad page lists numerous employment ads, from clerks, stenographers, and typewriters to drivers, salesmen, and hotel staff. It calls for white and colored workers, notes wages, locations at 10th Street NW, Pa Avenue, and Union Station area, and includes box numbers for applications.
A long column of help wanted ads seeking a general houseworker, cashier, chambermaid, waitress, and domestic guild applicants. Includes many positions for white or colored women, with nights, wages from 10 to 40 dollars, and addresses across Washington area. Frequent references to The Washington Domestic Guild and various boarding houses and hotels.
A dense OCR listing of multiple general houseworker and domestic helper ads, detailing positions for white and colored women, girls, nurses, cooks, chambermaids, laundresses, and companions. Includes addresses, wage hints, schedules, and eligibility notes across numerous neighborhoods.
An old style directory note lists a variety of pets and animals including canaries parrots dogs pigeons goldfish and mice. It mentions multiple sellers and shop names with location hints and scattered misspellings reflecting OCR text. The fragment shows a busy pet trade listing typical of a local newspaper notice.
A flood of lost notices lists a silk umbrella with silver handle, a brown sable muff, a gray squirrel neckpiece, a gold heart locket, a white bulldog with a brown spot, a gold watch, a pearl rosary, a pocketbook, keys and various other valuables. Rewards offered. contact 1400 L xt nw, 1210 Columbia road, or 1131 Q st nw for returns. Some items include fraternity pins, letter dogs, and a fox terrier with a distinctive marking.
A jumble of items for sale and trade including a Wolfsein overcoat and suit, a 1925 Bradbury fine diamond ring, furniture such as bedroom suites and a roll top desk, a guitar, violins, a piano, a typewriter, a 7th street address, and various small goods. Multiple listings mention prices, contact boxes, and locations around Bradbury Webster and University Place.
A jumble of short classified lines offering services and goods. Items include secondhand furniture such as chests of drawers and dressers, chimonier, and bureaus. white wrench silk toys. stenographers for hire. complete literary works sets. an engine and various tools. requests for use of money and partnerships. a screw-cutting lathe. law books. Buchu gin. fur storage offers. ladies furs for sale. secondhand lumber doors and windows. barred Plymouth hens. a half-horsepower croaker and wheelers. a metronome for sale. a small automobile boiler. a piano storage offer. and a pawn of diamonds for sale with high cash offers. Distinct names and addresses appear scattered throughout.
A small modern touring car, standard make, fully equipped, offered by a dental office at 1203 F Street. Price and terms to be reasonable. Box 65.
A dense classified-style notice page offers numerous positions in private households. Bartenders cooks chauffeurs clerks drivers porters cooks and maids seek roles in hotels clubs and private families with wages and references requested.
Situations wanted ad listing a refined mother with a young daughter seeking employment in suburbs or out of town. Wants governess, mother's helper, or housekeeper for two widowers with strong references. Furnished, cash and work terms. 60 years old, reliable, experienced, and capable in domestic tasks.
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