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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1906
Page
29
The Washington Post free want ad column details a public notice of free small ads with limits, timings, and agency drop points plus agent and job listings ranging from sales to domestic help and trades across multiple neighborhoods and addresses. It lists agencies and locations and emphasizes that free ads may be repeated until fulfilled.
A dense batch of classified ads seeking domestic workers laborers and sales staff. Listings include housekeepers cooks waitresses clerks office helpers and laborers with varied ages and experience. many specify women or colored workers and offer within area Washington DC addresses and box numbers for responses.
Classified list of general housework positions including white and colored girls and women, with ages, duties, wages, and addresses across Washington DC neighborhoods such as NW, NE, and SE. Entries seek live-in or day workers, cooks, laundresses, nannies, and governesses, with references requested and varying wage offers.
SITUATIONS AND HELP WANTED. Advertises a range of domestic positions at 804 17th St NW. Listings include chambermaids, cooks, nannies, laundresses, and general houseworkers, all seeking white or colored applicants with references. many roles require night shifts, live-in duties, and varying monthly wages up to 60 dollars.
A dense OCR style classified ad section seeks male applicants in multiple trades including bakers pastry chefs barbers butlers cooks chauffeurs coachmen and drivers. Many entries specify colored or foreign nationality descriptors with apply at 804 17th st nw or nearby streets, offering positions and references.
A dense late 19th or early 20th century classifieds page offers numerous help wanted ads. Roles include coachman driver porter elevator man chambermaid laundress nurse cook and more. Applicants urged to apply at 804 17th St NW and nearby addresses. emphasis on young Americans colored and German applicants with good references. guild notice requires subscriber or patron status and registration at 804 17th St NW with telephone contact.
A long column of miscellaneous wants and ads listing requests to hire, buy, or trade goods and services in Washington area. Items include furniture, piano storage, second hand appliances, sewing patterns, a tip about a cigar store sale, a horse, a battery powered motor, typewriter, cameras, and various household goods. Names of boxes and office references appear throughout with requests for cash or reasonable trades.
A crowded classified page lists items for sale and trade including a coal stove, shares of East Washington Savings Bank, a Manhattan typewriter, go carts, coats, dresses, and coats. Also offered are bicycles, pianos, desks, wardrobes, rugs, a banjo and violin, a pistol, a motor car, and various household goods with prices or trade notes. Names and addresses such as 11 Newton Place NW, 72h 11th St NW, and 1214 Pa Ave NW appear alongside ad numbers and box references.
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