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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1907
Page
29
Miscellaneas for sale and free advertising policy announces free help wanted and room notices in small columns. Advertising hours limit free ads to 3 p.m. on weekdays and 5 p.m. Saturdays. mail or drop off at agencies listed across Northwest Northeast Southeast and other districts.
Classified notices list positions including a man to work on a premises cooking for a colored wife and husband, and a boy to instruct a third grade arithmetic. Also advertised is a stenography and typing course at Stenographic Academy offering government exam prep with afternoon samples and a range of 20 to 90 lessons.
A crowded job list seeks canvassers portrait painters barbers bookkeepers and factory assistants. Positions demand experience young men and colored workers. many offers provide steady work and commissions with addresses in Washington area.
Classified notices seeking experienced ironers, letters yokes, stenographers, solicitors, beaters, and other staff. Jobs include permanent year round positions in laundry, filing, newspaper sales, vaudeville, and domestic service across Washington and Richmond with various pay and travel options.
Classifieds list numerous domestic service roles in Washington. Positions include chambermaids cooks waitresses dishwashers and general housework for white and colored women with varied wages and requirements. Agencies like The Washington Domestic Guild appear, with many listings across multiple streets and hours.
A dense listing of female help wanted ads from a historical newspaper segment. Positions include general housework, light factory work, cooking, laundress, nurse, governess, parlormaid, and steno roles. Many entries require references and specify locations around Washington DC areas such as 181 Hen-, 1733 F St NW, 1211 Pa Ave NW, 441th St NW, and other addresses. Some ads seek whites only, others colored workers, with varying wages and shifts, plus several nanny and nursery governess postings and sales roles.
A jumble of exchange notices offers goods and services in return for room and board, clothing, groceries, or small-item trades. It lists individuals seeking to trade stenography lessons, bookkeeping, dancing, or typing services for board, a cook, or groceries, plus items for exchange like gloves, a tuxedo, a wall clock, a showpiece, a combination desk and bookcase, a collie puppy and a bicycle trade, and a two-bathroom furnished room offer. Several boxes reference office or address lines and contact boxes for responses.
A crowded column lists numerous lost items including a gold locket, a black astrakhan muff, a small silver watch, a pink ribbon belt, and a pocketbook. It notes rewards for returns and provides partial addresses and contact hints across multiple downtown locations.
A cluttered for sale page lists used pianos including Knabe grand and upright models with prices from 600 to 875 dollars, National cash registers, furniture, clothing, pets, and various household goods. Numerous items reference specific addresses such as 1248-20 New Northwest, 1 Bal Sth St, and 930 T St NW, with terse condition notes and prices.
A collage of classified notices seeking to buy or trade items. Readers offer cash for secondhand Equity books, a large safe, a clarinet and instruction book, a private party seeks used furniture, a typewriter, pool table, and old pictures. Also requests for a cheap goat, a small house, an upright piano, and diamonds. Some contact details included.
Classified notices list opportunities in Washington city and nearby areas. Items include sale of wood supplies and 600 telephone poles, a fashionable northwest hotel with furnishings and rent, and established coal yards. Also seeks brokers for treasury stock, a corner storefront, and a private school development bid, plus patents and trademarks information. Numerous addresses and contact lines in Baltimore Washington D.C. region appear for inquiries.
A dense classified-style page of help wanted and help wanted male notices. It lists numerous briefs for apprentices, clerks, bartenders, drivers, butlers, cooks, janitors, waiters, and other steady employment, mostly from Washington area employers, with BOX numbers and times, plus many colored applicants seeking positions in domestic service, hotel work, or office tasks.
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