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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1906
Page
6
Free advertising guidance and ads for sale rent and services. Listings include agents for sales and domestic work, stenography, wait staff, and varied employment notices across Northwest and Northeast regions with agency drop points and mail options.
Short job ads and notices list positions from porter and driver to solderer, with locations in Washington and Alexandria. Includes clerical and delivery roles, a photo or handwriting request, and a mystery partner in a sorceral business seeking experience.
Classified help wanted notices from a Washington area page itemize positions for housework, maid, cook, stenographer, and sewing related tasks. Numerous listings seek reliable women, white or colored, for domestic work, garment work, and clerical roles with pay quotes and contact hints amid a dense, era-typical want ads section.
Situations and help wanted notice from a Washington firm at 804 17th Street NW promising easy servant placement. The ad appeals to those who failed elsewhere and highlights a large pool of registered, high quality servants. Address and phone provided for contact.
Employment ads from the Washington Domestic Guild list positions for chambermaids, cooks, waitresses, seamstresses, maids, nurses, companions, and general house workers. Many postings specify white or colored, private families, wages from $10 to $30 monthly, mornings or nights, and the need for experience and sewing ability at 804 17th St NW and surrounding addresses.
Classified style notice listing multiple short job ads for positions in baking cooking driving and office work. Entries request experienced reliable men and women of various races for roles like baker clerk coachman elevator operator janitor and watchman, all seeking references and applying at specific addresses including 804 17th st nw and 804 1st st nw, with several variations of job titles and requirements.
A dense classifieds page listing thousands of job ads for positions in Washington, mostly domestic help. Notices seek machinists, watchmen, porters, clerks, stenographers, cooks, chambermaids, housekeepers, nurses, waitresses, laundresses, dressmakers, and other service roles. Apply at 804 17th street or nearby addresses. emphasis on American or colored applicants with references. Guild cautions subscribers to avoid misrepresentation.
Classifieds list seekings and sells for office furniture and equipment. Items include a large roll top desk, chair, trunk, shelves, and a variety of household goods. The notices mention sellers and locations around downtown addresses and box references for response.
A garbled list of job ads seeks several positions for young women including stenographer, typist, bookkeeper, and waitresses. Addresses and brief requirements appear with stated salaries and call for responses in handwriting.
For sale or exchange an 80 acre tract in Berkley County described as Fruit Belt land with slate features, a barn and outbuildings, 15 acres under fruit and various fruit trees, good water, near a school, with daily mill delivery. Contact W Ikenutick, Br. fd, 14 Bunker Hum Ya. or For Sale or Exchange HM A acre tract opposite Hoel near Daniel and Rock Creek Ford roads, ten minutes from tar lines, city water available. Samir M. Ren, 433 New York Ave.
A blacked speculation of old classified ads seeks various domestic workers at 804 17th Street NW including white nurses or girl helpers for child care, night help, sewing and housework. Roles feature must loving children, English, neatness, and willing to sleep in with payments around $15 to $25 monthly. Archive tone shows multiple positions, some with language about race.
A garbled classified page lists buyers and sellers in Washington and Baltimore. Requests include ladies disposing of gowns jewelry and furs, a buyer visiting February 6, needlework orders, carpets woven into reversible fugs, high cash paid for worn garments, a singer sewing machine wanted, shotgun and camera requests, and real estate broker’s license transfer. Also ads for patterns, binoculars, clerk promotions, and massage services.
A mixed classified page shows items for sale and services sought. Listings include cash-for-goods buyers, watchmaker lathes, a full dress suit, embryo lectures, bicycles, fencing, a typewriter, a go cart, clerk job transfer, a lady occupying a flat, gowns and feathers, piano rental, hygiene edition, barber chairs, and more with contact box numbers and locations.
A jumble of notices lists lost dogs cats pocketbooks wallets and a watch with various rewards. Items include a white collie with brown bars a silver open faced watch a black leather packet and a white female fox terrier at 1407 Pierce place nw. Rewards range from nominal cash to liberal sums and owners ask for return to specific addresses or to contact named individuals such as J K Keane Mrs N C Robinson and Wheeler's cavalry withLead details spread across several streets and dates in January and February 1906.
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