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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1907
Page
27
The notice explains free want advertisements in the Washington Post, words limited to fifteen, one ad per day per person, free unless responses fail. It lists agency locations and drugstores across Northeast Southeast Southwest and Anacostia where 5 cent per ad submission is paid, with deadlines 5 p.m. weekdays and 8 p.m. Saturday.
Classified blurbs show positions including a tutor for a third grader seeking one month terms, an ironing collar and cuff capable person, and a note on high demand for sewing machines and typewriters. Also lists a special examiner for government employees and a stenographic academy at 316-218 Colorado Bide.
Numerous help wanted ads appear for canvassers, merchants, and skilled laborers. Listings include portrait canvassing at Central Art Studio, barber positions, apprenticeships, bookkeeping, draughtsman, sales, farm work, and domestic roles. Seekers urged to apply by mailing BOX numbers or visiting locations in Washington area.
Classified ads seek experienced workers for laundry and printing positions, plus ship draftsmen, real estate agents, and assorted labor. Listings include location references in Baltimore, Richmond, and Washington. Numerous roles call for steady year round work, salaries, commissions, and transportation, with application details and pay scales.
Classifieds offer numerous domestic posts in Washington including chambermaids cooks and general housework. Listings specify color or white applicants, varying hours and wages, with positions at multiple addresses such as 730 13th St and 16th St NW. Several ads seek experienced cooks or dressmakers and one calls for mandolin instruction for children.
Classified notices list multiple job openings for women including housekeepers laundresses cooks maids nurses and governesses. Entries specify experience refs wages and locations across Washington DC areas such as 13th st nw 14th st nw and 17th st nw, with BOX mail responses and agency listings.
A collage of exchange requests and lost items including gloves, a tuxedo, stenography work, a piano ad, a combination bookcase desk, a dog, a watch and various jewelry losses, a car cap, a pink satin ribbon belt, and multiple notices seeking exchanges or rewards with names and street addresses for returns.
Neglected fragment notes a found lady's watch and a request to call after 6 PM from flat 1 in main avenue northwest to prove ownership. The text is terse and lacks clear names or locations beyond general address cues.
A dense classifieds page offers used pianos, including Knabe uprights and grands, and National cash registers. Also listed are furniture, fabrics, rugs, lamps, musical boxes, and many household goods with prices and contact cues, plus miscellaneous animals, clothing, and small items.
A collage of help wanted notices from a Washington paper: young Harvard man offers secretarial service, an accountant seeks sets of books to audit, a sober industrious man requests any office or shop job, and numerous roles from bartender to bellman, cook, driver, butler, and domestic work. Includes colored and white applicants, several box numbers, and contact details.
A long vintage help wanted listing shows numerous individuals seeking domestic, office, or labor positions. Entries include a married man German speaker, clerks, stenographers, travel salespeople, porters, cooks, chambermaids, companions, nurses, and wait staff with various references and locations in the Washington area.
Antique mahogany four piece sideboard with glass large oil painting Ophelia two landscapes and other oils, French clock and porcelain items. Rosewood bureau and commode oval plate mirror hairpin trem dinger set very cheap call to arrange viewing. Full size oak bedstead and washstand walnut bedstead single with mattress and springs. Oak wardrobe walnut wardrobe 9. Call 301 D to inquire about room house contents.
Private party seeks to purchase secondhand furniture suitable for a small bachelor apartment. Wanted items include library table chair parlor pieces a folding bed divan desk and chairs. Also buying good condition box couch and other household goods. dealers not desired.
Classified notice seeks stables north of Fla Ave between 11th and 12th streets, suitable for keeping two automobiles. Contact Robert Heatter, Colorado Bandia? at w29.
A flood of personals notices seeks buyers for worn clothing and shoes at top prices. Advertisements promise psychic or detective services, hair removal, massage, and various home remedies with contact details and hours.
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