This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 12 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1907
Page
6
Miscellaneous for sale and free advertising offered by The Washington Post. Notices invite help, room rentals, and various small ads, with limits on free postings and deadlines. Instructions outline mail and agency dropoffs, with a list of local pharmacy agencies and addresses for submitting ads.
Help wanted brightener and washer job announced for a 11 year old in Connecticut. A man to work on a place with cooking duties seeks a colored wife to assist and details are in Box 35 Silver Spring. Also a tutor needed to teach arithmetic from third grade level with one month terms. Secretary-stenographer courses advertised to meet high demand with afternoon samples for government posts at the Stenographic Academy.
A dense OCR of classifieds shows numerous help wanted notices including male applicants for painting and barber roles, office boy and clerical positions, assistants in various trades, and canvassers. Many entries seek colored and white workers, with age, experience, and references noted, plus boxes for responses and addresses in Washington.
A chaotic page lists numerous help wanted notices: experienced ironers, white and colored laborers, sol icitors, stenographers, and a tenor singer. Opportunities span laundry, office work, building lots sales, clock farm management, and vaudeville team work with locations in Washington, Richmond, and Virginia, demanding reliability, experience, and prompt applications.
Multiple classified notices seeking female domestic workers in Washington area. Listings request seasoned chambermaids cooks waitresses and general houseworkers of various ages and colors, with details on wages stay nights references and employment terms, placed by The Washington Domestic Guild and other offices.
Classified advertisements seek numerous domestic roles including general housework, cooks and laundresses, in private families and factories. Highlights include white and colored applicants, governesses for children, nurses, maids, and light factory help, with varying hours, references required, and locations primarily around downtown Washington. Many postings request apply by morning or at specific addresses with box numbers for response.
Many small ads seek exchanges for goods or services including boxing gloves for skates, stenography training or dictation work for room and board, bookkeeping or shorthand lessons for domestic help, a wall clock and camera for cash or stamps, and a suburban lot for a couple with a bicycle trade. Listings show boxes and offices for responses, with several requests for instruction, tutoring, and miscellaneous barter deals.
A jumble of lost items from a Washington DC era paper notes wallets watches brooches rings and jewelry. Includes addresses and rewards for returning items from various streets and landmarks such as the Hotel, Chestnut street, Woodward and Lothrop stores, Capitol area, and local apartments. Also small ads for sales and services.
Numerous used pianos including Knabe uprights and grands with prices from 600 to 875, plus national cash registers and furniture pieces. Ads list small odds and ends, pets, clothing, and a stereo moving picture machine for cheap, with many items in old Washington addresses and varied conditions.
Multiple brief classifieds seek purchases and ad hoc wants including a clean secondhand copy of Equity by Adams, a large 20-hand safe, a clarinet and instruction book, a male goat, secondhand furniture and bedding, old pictures of George Washington, various items for purchase, a typewriter Underwood, a pool table, law quizzes, a ticket to Montgomery, a refined lady to share a room, a small house or flat, a coon dog, store space or rental, addresses of witnesses in a case, piano care, an adopted baby boy, and diamonds or precious metals for cash.
A jumble of classified notices advertising sale of oak and poplar wood and poles, hotel for sale, brick hotel opportunity, real estate brokers in Newport News and Baltimore, selling treasury stock, coal yards for sale, cigar and pgs parlors for sale, public school development funding, and patent information services. Includes addresses and contact names such as JAMES E. CLEM ENTS, W. T. CHAPIN, H. A. MORT, BOX numbers, and J. R ROTTINGHAM.
Classified array of male seeks including accountant, clerk, porter, waiter, engineer, driver, cook, janitor, bookkeeper, and general labor. Many listings show BOX mail references, color status, and hourly or weekly wages. emphasis on reliability, experience, and willingness to start immediately.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.