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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1906
Page
34
An old Washington Post notice explains free want ads in email columns with limits. It lists times, delivery rules, and agency locations where ads can be placed for a small fee, detailing streets and pharmacies serving as drop points in Northwest Northeast Southeast and Anacostia.
A dense, fragmented classified page lists multiple private family positions and service roles including butler or waitress openings, cook and laundress for a Fort Myer household, chambermaid, and a young woman for maid duties. Also appears are stenography and automobie school ads, brokered sales, and general agent postings with names like Dr. Robert Smart and Boston House. The page showcases varied employment prospects with references, locations, and brief requirements.
Classified notices seek deputies clerks solicitors cooks chambermaids waiters salesmen and general housework help. Employers offer modest pay and steady work, with many positions specifying reliable White or colored workers and references. Multiple firms invite applications at specific rooms and addresses after set hours.
Classified notices list several domestic positions including housemaid, houseworker, nurse, and clerk jobs. Entries specify white and colored applicants, city locations such as 2d Street NW, 9th Street NW, 11th Street NW, Connecticut Ave, and B Street SW, with duties ranging from cooking and cleaning to child care and夜time care in private homes and hotels. Many ads request references, experience, and willingness to work evenings or stays, with pay expectations noted in some lines.
A jumble of requests and ads seeking to buy or trade items. Appears as personals and classifieds offering or seeking a typewriter bicycle piano furniture rugs carpets and household goods, with several addresses and contact hints, plus notices of wanted services and exchanges.
The notice lists items for sale including a new bicycle, glass show window, glass cabinet desk, ice chest, and various furnishings. It includes several clothing items such as overcoats, a beaded or pearl trimming, and vintage accessories. Other goods offered are a job press, violins, mandolins, a cook stove, beds, bedframes, a stove heater, lamps, a sewing machine, a typing machine, and assorted fixtures. Contact details and locations in Washington DC area are provided for inquiries and offers.
Classified notices show many barter offers including an Estey organ or Columbia graphophone for plain and colored lantern slides, dressmaking in exchange for voice lessons, and various furniture, appliances, and personal items offered or sought by residents of Congress Heights and Dupont Circle areas.
A cluttered notice page lists numerous lost items and rewards. Dogs, pins, purses, a belt buckle, a pension of bonds, and small valuables are sought by owners at addresses around 10th Street, Dupont Circle, Mount Pleasant, and other neighborhoods. Also includes lost keys and a leather bag with no value except to owner.
Classified notices list varied jobs and assistants including elevator conductor and boy, engineer seeking urban post, expert accountant, penman, general housework, trade positions, and street-cleaning. Many entries specify race and age, with addresses in Washington area and box numbers for responses. several highlight strong references, sober behavior, and willingness to work evenings.
A long list of domestic helper ads appears with positions for cooks maids laundresses and companions. Various applicants seek private families homes and institutions offering experience references and location details across streets in Washington DC areas.
Multiple room offers across Northwest and Southwest Washington DC with furnished and unfurnished options. Advertisements describe large front rooms, parlor suites, steam heat, private baths, and board, targeting single professionals and couples, with rents from modest to moderate and varied amenities.
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