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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1906
Page
25
Multiple help wanted classifieds show white and colored applicants sought for domestic service, kitchen, coachman, waiter, chambermaid, cooks, gardeners, and general labor. Advertisements list names, addresses, pharmacy agencies, Fort Myer quarters, and various white and mixed employment opportunities with pay and required references.
A dense, historic classifed ad page listing employment opportunities across Washington DC. Scattered roles include solicitors, specification writers, shop workers, waiters, chambermaids, cooks, canvassers, sales clerks, and female bookkeepers with various experience levels. Multiple box ads and residential postings for domestic service and staffing appear, with addresses and contact instructions.
Classifieds reveal a laundry list of domestic work opportunities and staffing requests. Posts seek general housework workers, a white girl for a private apartment, a kitchen maid, seamstresses, nurses, readers, stenographers, and waitresses with varying references and shifts, all across addresses in Washington area.
Numerous short notices offer to buy or trade items. Wants include carpet, chairs, a reflex camera, piano, bicycle, wooden rocker, lamps, tools, a violin bow, mandolin, Bible commentaries, and a stove. Some ads seek to buy old valentines, furniture, bric a brac, or pay for household goods. Sales include oak dressers, mirrors, a bed, and a solid gold watch. Bargains and exchanges are noted at multiple addresses.
Long list of items offered for sale including heavy brown overcoat size 37, pool table components, autoharp, piano, beds, brass easel, gas stoves, bath items, bicycles, and numerous small household goods. Contact details show multiple DC streets and flat numbers for inquiries. Also multiple real estate loan offers from several agencies and brokers.
Window shades and wall papers from C. C Silence Co at 510 Est NW. Offers lowest prices, guaranteed workmanship, and estimates. Phone Main 486 for best quality owl opague window shades, Scotch Holland shades, and samples. Kleeblats Lith Om
A dense run of lost items includes purses pockets books rings pins keys and tags. Offers rewards and contact details for owners at addresses near 18th street Dupont Circle Mount Pleasant and the Richmond Hotel area with items ranging from a silk derby to a round pin containing red stones and a blue rug.
A jumble of notices offers openings and ads from a paper back page. A contact seeks a party with real estate knowledge to enter a field in the far West. A lady seeks a steady young partner with cash. A salaried position for a capable man is advertised with medical oversight. A manicurist and hairdresser are to rent space at a winter resort. Notes, accounts and rents are collected by Fuller Agency. A cigar and tobacco store for sale is listed under Owner Leh.
Bargains on fine carriages and autos from storage sale in Washington area. Front Brougham rubber tires light landau two-horse Brewster Victoria coupe Rockaway and more with harnesses saddles robes and single and double harness. Auto touring car seats six in running order priced at 360 and runabout 200 call to view at storage 104 and 496 1th st below 1th and Pa. Must be sold immediately.
Classified listings show numerous employment requests and job seeker notices across Washington DC. Items include positions such as bellman waiter elevator conductor clerk bookkeeper cook janitor carpenter driver messenger and various general workers. Names addresses and contact patterns reflect a dense, wide ranging help wanted page from a period newspaper with many single line notices and mixed white colored and private family listings.
A long list of positions from watchman and elderly care to chambermaids, cooks, housekeepers, laundresses, and clerical work. Includes many entries for colored women and young women with varied hours, locations, and shorthand contact notes.
Short job notices show a wide range of roles from laundresses and nurses to seamstresses and stenographers. Many ads specify color or race, locations in Washington DC areas, and flexible hours or home work, reflecting historical labor norms and bias.
A chaotic page of personal notices offers top cash for worn clothes including shoes hats shirts and undergarments from all ages and genders. Various services are advertised from fortune telling to scalp treatments and psychic readings, with multiple contact numbers and locations.
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