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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1906
Page
5
Public notice outlines free want ads up to fifteen words with limits, timing, and agency locations in Washington Post columns. Lists numerous pharmacies and districts where ads can be left or mailed for five cents each, with deadlines and delivery cautions.
Classified ad fragment listing numerous employment opportunities across domains. Includes salesmen in hotels and stores, stenographers, an assortment of shop and domestic positions, and generalized help wanted notices. Mentions salaries, commissions, and liberal advances, with various city references and contact hints.
Situations and help wanted notices from 804 17th St NW announce a wide range of positions in private households. Listings seek male and female staff including cooks, chambermaids, laundresses, waiters, valets, nurses, nannies, and housekeepers, with varied wages and references. Several ads specify white or colored workers and night shifts. apply in person to 804 17th St NW.
A dense, era-styled classified page seeking male and female servants and workers. Listings include bakers cooks drivers chauffeurs janitors chambermaids waitresses and more, all offering good references and applying at 804 17th st nw or nearby addresses. Many entries specify colored or American workers, neat appearance, and private family placements.
Fragmentary job ads list positions from houseboy to laborer, tailor, office boy, and general help. Entries show contact methods, locations in Washington area and boxes or addresses for applications, with terse requirements and wages or duties. The crude OCR preserves scattered business names and addresses but is incomplete.
Classified ads list multiple job openings including real estate salesman on commission, office contacts, and preferred qualifications. Also seeks white male stenographer and other positions such as seamstress, waiter, watchmaker, and various domestic staff with city addresses and box responses.
A crowded page of advertisements listing female general housework, live-in help, cooks, nannies, matrons, and maids. Also seeks stenographers, instructors, nurses, governesses, washers, launderers, milliners, and waitresses with varying hours, references, and locations around Northwest Washington and nearby areas.
Classified ads list assorted items for sale or trade including secondhand iron fencing, a cigar and news stand, a grocery store, art prints, dressers and beds, a bicycle, a hunter’s gun, a fire extinguisher, and various furniture pieces. Also noted are a hotel barber shop for sale, a piano, a safe, clothing, and many miscellaneous household items.
Multiple classified items offered for sale including furniture instruments and appliances. Lost and found notices cover watches purses domes umbrellas dogs and other personal items with numerous Washington DC area addresses and contact details.
A fragment notes a failed attempt to obtain a “Good GUILD” with the majority of the West servants registered. It mentions a Washington domestic guide address near H Street and an associated telephone number, suggesting a column or advertisement about domestic help services.
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