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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1906
Page
6
Public notice outlines free classified ads with limits and deadlines. It lists local pharmacies and officials, plus instructions for submitting notices and contact details for free postings and salesmen recruitment.
A garbled listing of ad style employment offers across many fields including driver, kitchen maid, shorthand course, real estate rep, barber, waiter, porter, upholsterer, houseboy, and other help wanted positions. The text cites various locations and vague requirements, reflecting a busy classified page with mixed job prospects and informal employer calls.
Classified notices offer training for plumbing and plastering plus positions for apprentices in printing, cigars, and retail. Many helpers seek clerical, stenography, canvassing, waiter, and chambermaid posts with pay notes and location in Washington area. multiple addresses, firms, and job types listed.
Many small ads listing general housework and domestic helper positions. Includes colored, white, and middle aged women offering services such as cooking, washing, ironing, and staying nights for families across addresses like 125 B street northeast, 508 ith street, and 1003 E street. Also notes require refs, wages, and home conditions.
Local classified items including office furniture, beds, chairs, sofas, pianos, violins, violas, sewing machines, a 1906 Orient Surrey automobile, bicycles, and various small goods offered at bargain prices. Listings show multiple Cleveland avenue addresses and box numbers, with prices ranging from $1 to $100,000 first mortgage bonds and items like a French fan and a glass scent bottle.
Classified snippets advertise three smooth Fox Terrier puppies five dollars each and other items. Listings include burial plots in Glenwood, oak dressers and stands, a solid oak double bed, a man’s bicycle and household goods for sale, plus Bible commentaries and a gray overcoat. Box and office references appear throughout.
A crowded listing of exchange notices includes a quartered oak double bed with woven springs and a brass bed option, an old opera hat exchange, encyclopedia dictionary sets, language lessons for Spanish or French, a telescope, a bedstead, horse gear, canary birds, ducks for game, a piano lesson barter, and various household items. Many entries request swaps for cash, furniture, or services, and provide contact via local streets and box numbers.
For sale or exchange an array of typewriters including No U Remington and Underwood in perfect order. Also willing to exchange for a useful article. Includes complete American and International Envelopes B1L I 6. ow. 7.
A long list of found and lost items in Washington near Dupont Circle and surrounding streets. Pocketbooks, a brown pocketbook, silk derbys, a miniature Welsh heirloom, a lost Irish terrier Pat, a lady’s gold watch, chains and jewelry, a purse, keys, a Boston bull terrier, a stray puppy Tess, a purse marked A B, an Irish road car theft note, a horseshoe diamond earring, a gold locket, a four leaf clover cover, and a pointer dog Joker are reported with contact details for recovery and rewards offered.
A collage of lost items including a small red enameled watch at 1330 Vermont Ave. a garnet necklace once part of a rosary. a black dog named Rowd at 2208 Ist St NW. a Calvary Baptist hat lost Monday night. a black terrier Monty lost with $6 reward. a Confederate pin. a gold hunting watch with initials L. P.. a green pocketbook with money and items. various gloves purses and collars. an Irish terrier Pat on Tenallytown Rd. a brown and white female spaniel near Capitol streets. a black silk scarf. several cash rewards ranging from $6 to $32.50. multiple small items like purses, keys, a brooch pin, a belt, coins and a muff with a brown feather. many items reported near Dupont Circle, K Street, and Georgetown.
A dense list of help wanted ads seeking white waitresses colored nurse caretaking young couples for home parties office work bookkeepers chauffeurs and many service positions. Entries include Cook Cleaner Porter Butler driver coachman clerk and other trades with brief self descriptions and office addresses for responses across various neighborhoods.
A dense OCR styled list shows numerous job ads mainly for young colored men and white workers seeking varied labor positions in private homes, stores, and offices. Roles include drivers, elevator conductors, janitors, general housework, clerks, cooks, porters, messengers, and skilled trades with multiple references and neighborhood locations.
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