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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1907
Page
37
The Washington Post announces free want ads for rooms and various notices with limits. Ads must be under fifteen words and follow schedule rules for time and placement with agency drop-offs and mail options across multiple city locations.
Classified wants offer positions and training in clothing sales typing shorthand bookkeeping and music education. Listings include a clothing salesman position experienced in apparel a night writer and shorthand course at Ethnographic Academy and government exam preparation. Addresses box numbers and offices in Washington DC and Charlottesville Virginia appear with varied wages and hours.
A (highly garbled) classified page lists male help wanted positions in Mt Pleasant and Washington area. Opportunities include barber, clerk, janitor, carriage washer, chauffeur, bookkeeper, and more with requirements such as experience, references, and specified wages. Various employers and box numbers appear, seeking trustworthy workers across diverse trades.
A flooded page shows diverse help wanted notices from a Washington firm. Positions include salesmen for a high class store, stock sales and bond selling, scouring and tailoring, second-man white applicants, a white man to Richmond, an ambitious tenor singer, a utility man for a furnace, a waiter colored boy, and a suburban building agency agent. Detailed box addresses and contact methods accompany each listing.
A dense run of classified notices seeking a housemaid, chambermaids, cooks, waitresses, a nurse, a clerk, and other domestic workers. Listings specify white, colored, or German-speaking applicants, with stays night or day, various wages, and locations around Washington area addresses and employers such as The Washington Domestic Guild and local hotels.
A dense block of classified advertisements seeks female help for general housework and related domestic tasks. Listings include varied requirements, from stay-night duties to experienced cooks and nurses, with multiple employers and addresses across Washington, notably the Washington Domestic Guild, and numerous white or colored applicants offering referrals and wages.
Mixed listing of second hand items including cash registers, furniture, clothing, pets, and household goods with prices and contact details. Items include a National Cash Register dealer ad, a 8x18 gas cake griddle, Angora kittens for sale, a Persian rug, brocade outfits, a Tra No. 5 Blickenstoderfer, Indian curios, films about royal events, an invalid rolling chair, linoleum, a buffalo hide, a Skye terrier puppy, a brown quardcoat, a typewriter, a black fox fur collar, rubber boots, mackintosh coats, and more with various addresses and phone-like references.
Classified column itemizes numerous used goods for sale including pianos canaries clothing and pets along with furniture and household items. Various contact methods and box numbers indicate a bustling marketplace listing typical early 20th century urban classified ads.
Classified tales list requests for a large, multi-compartment book safe with 20x7 or larger, four drawers and cash compartment, plus a range of rewards for lost items. The ad cites addresses in Washington DC areas, a bonded broker, and multiple lost gold items including locket, ring, bracelets, and watches with generous rewards.
A dense block of job ads lists positions from bellman and waiter to cook and clerk. It includes many notices for colored and white applicants, ages around 15 to 21, offering wages, hours, and locations in Washington DC offices and local buildings.
A large listing from The Washington Domestic Guild offers varied job ads for stewards cooks waiters janitors drivers and clerks. Applicants include a German American draftsman a young white married man and several colored men and women seeking work in private homes hotels cafes and offices with wages references and location details.
SITUATIONS WANTED FEMALE lists many job pleas from capable women seeking cashier, chambermaid, cook, nanny, or companion positions. Mentions Jamestown Exposition reference and Washington Domestic Guild ads. Includes numerous colored and white applicants with wages from 15 to 35 dollars weekly.
A torn classified page lists numerous helpwanted and caregiver ads including housekeepers for widowers and families, nurses and attendants for invalids, seamstresses, laundresses, maids, cooks, and child care. Many entries request applying to Washington Domestic Guild at 730 13th St or Box numbers, with various wages and terms.
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