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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1906
Page
27
The notice outlines free advertising in the Washington Post want ads with limits on word count and daily insertions. It lists agency locations at drug stores across Northwest Northeast Southeast and Anacostia, noting pay ads after free slots and delivery via post office care rules.
A dense OCR of want ads seeks male and female servants and staff for private households. Positions include butler or waitress, coachman cook and laundress, chambermaid, and general room staff. Also ads for stenography schools, automobile instruction, sales agents, and barbers, with contact details and locations in Washington area.
A jumble of job ads includes deputies, soda clerk, solicitors, writers, cooks, chambermaids, waiters, and other positions. Listings specify locations like Washington DC areas and offices, with ages, duties, and contact methods.
A scanned page lists many help wanted notices for domestic workers across the city, including housemaids, light housework, cooks, chambermaids, nurses, and office assistants. Entries specify white and colored workers, locations, hours, pay, and brief role descriptions. The ads indicate varied households and institutions seeking female staff, with contacts at local addresses and offices.
A crowded classified page lists requests for a good condition typewriter, bicycle, wicker go cart, carpet, and a variety of furniture and appliances. It includes box replies, contact hints, and price hints from several offices and residents in Washington area.
Classified notices listing bicycles, glass show window, and office fixtures for sale. Includes violin bow and case, mandolin, pearls, hats, coats, and a solid oak bedstead. Also offers a stove, stove heater, lamps, framed mirrors, and a set of kitchen and office items with contact details. Includes Confederate money and various antique items.
A noisy classified notice page lists exchanges and wanted items. Sellers seek a good Estey organ or Columbia graphophone with records, dressmaking for voice lessons, a gas range, a piano, bicycles, a tailor coat, a piano for a good upright, and various household goods for trade or sale. Found items include a crown pocketbook, a photo pin, several lost items, and requests for trades in Columbia Heights and downtown Washington.
A flood of lost and found notices appears for dogs and personal items across Washington, many with rewards. Terriers, spaniels and small purses vanish in various blocks from Dupont Circle to 14th Street, with rewards offered and details listed for each item.
A dense classified listing shows varied roles from elevator boy and janitor to stenographer and housework, seeking men and women of diverse backgrounds. Notable postings include white and colored applicants, ages 14 to 35, with mentions of experience, references, and residence districts around Washington, D.C. areas, including NW and NE sections, and plumbing, tailoring, and office support needs.
A dense classifieds page lists positions in DC area for cooks chambermaids maids laundresses and housekeepers all colored workers and white educated young ladies and nurses with various hours live-in or day work openings include private family positions and hotel or restaurant work applicants urged to apply at listed addresses around 1929 12th st nw 2374 Lat cw and 11 TE R chin office and other local streets with references requested numerous entries specify race education or domestic skills and offer compensation according to role.
Numerous listings for furnished and unfurnished rooms in Northwest DC including 3 to 4 front rooms, parlor suites, and housekeeping units. Advertisements emphasize heat, private baths, modern improvements, and proximity to central avenues. Prices range around 24 dollars a week with options for board and single occupants. Organized by location blocks such as 6th Street, 7th Street, Florida Avenue, and N Street, featuring multiple buildings and room sizes.
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