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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1907
Page
37
Miscellaneas for sale and free advertising offered by The Washington Post page urges readers to place notices for rent rooms and wants. Free ads posted until cutoff with limits on frequency, agencies listed across city sections, and delivery options via mail or office drop.
Job ads reveal: ironing collar and cuffs for a 11 month old Connecticut infant? Also a wife seeking a man to work at a place with cooking duties. Another item offers arithmetic tutor for third grade and terms for one month. A demand for stenographers and typewriters prompts a training course at Stenographic Academy, 315-318 Cowraca Building.
Multiple terse ads seek canvassers and labor from young men and hustlers. Listings include portrait canvassing, barbers, bookkeepers, clerks, and general labor with varied pay. Departments indicate firms like Regent News, James D. Lalor Co, and Harvey's, with addresses across NW streets and office boxes. Some ads request experience, references, or specific race and color notes.
Multiple job notices seek experienced hand ironers and yoke letterers for year round work at E Rosenfeld & Co. several man and stenographer posts. solicitors and newspaper solicitors, travel to Richmond. tenor singers and vaudeville team actors. utility men waiters and caretakers. sales agency for suburban building lots. white married man to manage a Virginia clock farm. young colored boy and doorman positions. addresses include 93 to 38 S Pace St Bathtmore Did, 720 13th St NW, 130 13th St NW, 752 E Malo Richmond VA, The Rochambeau, and Washington Domestic Guild locations.
A flood of late 19th century classified style notices seeks female labor for domestic work in Washington. Listings include chambermaids, cooks, housekeepers, waitresses, and general helpers, with color and race descriptors, stay nights, wages, and required references. Multiple boxes and addresses appear for The Washington Domestic Guild.
A dense slate of 1920s era classified ads seeks female labor. Positions include general housework, light factory work, nanny and governess roles, kitchen and laundress duties, white and colored workers, nurses, cooks, waitresses, and salesgirls. Box referrals and guilds urge applicants with references and availability, with varied wages and schedules.
A cluttered page lists numerous exchange requests and offers including boxing gloves for skates, dictation and stenography for housing or board, bookkeeping and shorthand lessons for room and board, a camera and planes for currency, a wall clock for shotgun or bicycle, and various items like a combination bookcase desk and a collie puppy. Many entries include box numbers and office references, with occasional dates and locations such as Monsey Building and Fifth Avenue.
An assortment of wants and rewards fill the page including numerous lost items such as a gold locket, small silver watch, ring, and bracelets, a black astrakhan muff, a pocketbook, umbrella, and gloves. There are also ads for sale items, a piano certificate, and a few personal notices amid scattered address contacts and rewards.
Numerous used pianos including Knabe uprights and grands priced for quick sale. Also National cash registers, furniture, clothing, pets, and small appliances offered. Listings mention locations, prices, and contact details in terse classified ad style.
A busy page of classified notices lists items wanted or offered: a clean secondhand copy of Equity by Adams, a large 20 hand safe, a clarinet and instruction book, a male goat, secondhand furniture, a Underwood typewriter, a secondhand pool table, and various private party purchases. Also seeks old pictures of George Washington, addresses witnesses for a public assault, piano care, an upright piano, and adoption of a healthy baby boy.
A mixed set of classified items offers for sale wood stock and poles near Washington city, a brick hotel on Avenue with furnishings and rent potential, coal yards and cigar parlors, and various business opportunities. Also notes a private school financing, a brokerage to sell treasury stock, and patent and trademark information services.
Classifieds show a flood of male situations wanted posts seeking office clerks, bookkeepers, apprentices, drivers, butlers, cooks, waiters, janitors, porters, and general labor. Many entries specify BOX numbers or contact details and emphasize reliability, experience, and willingness to work days or evenings.
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