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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1906
Page
2
A collage of late 19th century want ads listing positions and services. Items seek butlers waitresses cooks maids coachmen clerks salesmen gardeners and more with references required and locations around Fort Myer Washington area.
A dense paste of help wanted notices lists cooks chambermaids waiters canvassers clerks general housework and other positions. Many entries target young white or colored applicants with varying hours, salaries, and locations across Washington DC, including G Street NW Colorado Building Walker Hughes Market and The Regent Hotel.
A dense string of rental and employment notices from a historical classifieds page. It lists general housework, nannies, nurses, seamstresses, and waitresses with varying requirements, apartments, references, and locations such as 208 N. J. ave, 1720 F nw, 63 Connecticut, 1700 block addresses, and Washington, D C. The ad mix includes white and colored workers across roles from maid to nurse to stenographer.
A collage of short requests and offers for goods and services. Buyers and sellers seek carpeting, chairs, bicycles, a piano, a reflex camera, tools, furniture, and various hardware. Some items list boxes and street addresses, others call for cash offers or exchanges, with notable mentions of addresses and names like BOX 164 and BOX 213 this office.
A dense listing of items for sale and exchange including heavy overcoat, pool table, auto harp, piano, beds, desks, brass easel, stove, gas ranges, washing items, bicycles, and various small goods. Also numerous loan offers from real estate and finance firms with rates and contact details across Adams Morgan and Downtown DC, including Breeo & Tolson auction mention and multiple addresses.
The C. C Silence Co announces wallpaper and window shade manufacturing with low prices and guaranteed work. Estimates offered, phone Main 486 for samples and installation. Also advertising quality owl opague and Scotch Holland shades, with Kleeblaty’s lith appears in ad copy.
A crowded list of lost and found notices from a Washington area newspaper page. Items include purses, chains, pocketbooks, silk hats, pins, jewelry, a dog, a Pekin spaniel, and various personal belongings with contact directions and rewards. locations reference 7th and H streets NW, Myrtle Street, Dupont Circle, and nearby shops and restaurants, with owners seeking return and rewards.
A collage of classified notices offers business chances, a lady seeking a steady young partner with cash, a salaried position for a capable man, a manicurrent space rental, notes on collections, and a cigar and tobacco store for sale. Includes FOOM 6 Fourth Street, Pa Avenue contact, and BOX references.
People who have left Washington sell to save storage and grain costs. Front Brougham with rubber tires, light landau, Victoria with small seat, Brewster Victoria coupe Rockaway, lady's under trap runabout, hackney cart, governess cart, basket vehicle, spider phaeton with footman seat, gentleman's mail phaeton by Brewster. Automobiles touring car seats six in running order. Prices from 200 to 360 dollars. Storage at 104 and 496 1th St. ow. must be sold immediately.
Classified ad roundup seeking positions for a wide range of jobs. Listings include bellman, elevator conductor, driver, janitor, cook, clerk, bookkeeper, salesman, stenographer, waiter, porter, janitor, carpenter, and general housework. Numerous entries specify age, race, and location in the Washington DC area, with references and address details for applications.
A long list of labor and domestic help notices. Positions include watchman elderly man, reliable white man, laborers, envelope addressing, assistant bookkeeper, cashier, chambermaid colored girl, cook, dressmaker, housekeeper, laundress, and companion roles. Addresses in Washington area. varying experience requirements and shifts.
A dense listing of job ads seeking laundresses housekeepers nurses and office staff. Positions include colored women for domestic service, light housework, sewing, seamstresses, stenographers and typists with various hours and locations. Several entries offer references and home-based work.
Classified personals list shows buyers offering high cash for worn shoes hats and garments for all ages with mail-in offers and phone contacts. Several outfits and individuals advertise services from fortune telling to scalp treatments and loan offers, creating a broad ad page of personal services and solicitations.
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