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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1906
Page
6
The Washington Post offers free want ads in several columns with limits on placement and timing. It lists multiple agency locations and pharmacies to drop ads, along with a variety of classified notices seeking salesmen, houseworkers, and general help, with pay conditions and contact details.
Suburban and city job listings seek painters, printing apprentices, sales solicitors, stenographers, chambermaids, cooks, and wardrobers. Employers include printing firms and hotels. positions call for experience, reliability, and good references. Wages vary. some openings offer training and advancement opportunities.
A collage of personal ads and requests: an embroidery lesson offer, a normal graduate seeking teaching for backward children, baby carriage and go cart wants, saloon purchase, book pricing details, second-hand lumber and sash requests, house or vacant lot search, a horse for winter care, stock inquiry, and a launch engine for sale. Listings show addresses around Washington DC and adjacent areas.
A fragment filled with miscellaneous classifieds listing tool chests, typewriters, stoves, carpets, furniture, bicycles, and hardware. Ads request prices, conditions, and contact details, with entries from several neighborhoods and offices.
A jumble of used clothing and furniture for sale includes ladies coats, a satin lined beaver coat size 34, a black coat, a tuxedo and dress suit size 26, a dining room set, feathered chairs, a piano, a sewing machine, a mattress, lamps, and various small items priced from $1 to $260. Including baby high chair, guitar, and stoves. Some items offer exchange options and box mail pickup.
A crowded page of barter offers and wanted items lists exchanges for a typewriter, electric fan, overcoats, a Ramble Runabout car, a dressmaker, a bicycle, a gas range, and more. Buyers and sellers seek cash equivalents or trade in clothing, furniture, cameras, books, and household goods with several notices asking for contact at local offices and addresses.
A dense scan shows a vintage classified page listing numerous job requests and helper roles. The text seeks colored men and women for positions such as chauffeur, cook, janitor, bookkeeper, store clerk, porter, elevator operator, driver, and general labor. Names and exact addresses appear scattered, with repeated calls for reliable, hardworking applicants and references.
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