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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1906
Page
8
Classified ads from the Washington Domestic Guild at 804 17th St NW seek male servants, cooks, chambermaids, launderers, and general helpers with references. Listings include chambermaids, cooks, nurses, maids, and private-house positions with varied wages and overnight or daytime requirements.
Subscribing patrons of the Guild may access servant placement ads listing many positions for colored and white workers. Readable entries include coachman driver elevator man stenographer and chambermaid roles with local apply-at details and references.
Classified notices seek a waiter and a colored student for breakfast and dinner shifts at a St neighborhood address. Also a colored waiter for Lincoln area, plus a white man about 38 with good home. Job ad for handling high grade chemical fire extinguishers, with references. Address box numbers provided.
A flood of help wanted notices seeks chambermaids waitresses cooks and general houseworkers in Washington with color coded calls for white and colored women. Employers from University Hospital to hotels post requests and many offer room and board or modest wages, some specify references and stay nights.
Free advertising with limits, location stations, and posting rules for want ads in The Washington Post. Notices include job and goods listings with various local pharmacies and agencies, hours, and submission methods for readers seeking free or paid placements.
A flood of classified notices seeks office boys, a photographer, a plumber's helper, cooks, pressmen, a real estate salesman, coffee salesmen, and more. Positions promise union admission, good pay, advancement, and variety, with application details scattered across addresses, boxes, and room numbers in Washington area listings.
Classified ads seek white or colored girls and a nurse for infant care and housekeeping in Washington area. Jobs include live-in, part-time, or shift work. multiple ages, duties include laundry, cooking, child care, and general cleaning. contact numbers and addresses provided for applications.
A Washington DC area classified page lists WANTED clerks and stenographers in Southern city, with responses to EXCHANGE. Numerous small ads follow offering patterns, furniture, sewing machines, office equipment, rooms to share, livestock, vehicles, and various second hand items for sale or trade with contact by BOX numbers.
A dense list of miscellaneous items for sale and Wanted Miscellaneous asks and offers across Alexandria Virginia area. Items include furniture clothing instruments tools bicycles stoves pianos and more with locations and contact hints. The catalog reflects a bustling urban secondhand market offering bargains and trade prospects to residents.
Classified ads list a Grafophone type 7B with records, camera gear, tripods, and a brass horn, all for sale. Vendors advertise violins, mandolins, banjos, dresses, suits, chairs, machines, carriages, bicycles, bookcases, and baby items. Locations include Washington DC streets and nearby Alexandria listings. inquiries via office boxes and room numbers.
An 1866 notice for Burnstine’s Loan Office at 361 Pennsylvania Avenue advertises lending against gold silver watches diamonds jewelry and mechanical tools with gold and silver buying emphasis.
A crowded classified column lists items for trade or sale including a pleasant fur parlor box, a 6 by 6 foot by 2 foot tent, gas stoves, a lady’s bicycle, violins, a 2x2 tent, a wall of goods, and requests for trades with various offices. Numerous entries offer exchanges for household goods, instruments, furniture, and services, with postal box contact references and limited location details.
A long run of lost and found notices lists numerous items from keys and wallets to dogs and fur garments. Rewards offered for returning to various addresses including 1814 6th St NW, 1434 I St NW, and other locations. multiple dogs such as a brindle bulldog and a fox terrier reported missing with descriptions. Also entries for a mink boa, gold bracelet, watches, and purses with contact details and rewards. Numerous notices specify dates around January and locations like 16th St NW, F St NW, and the Regent Hotel area.
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