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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1906
Page
29
Short item notes free wants ads in The Washington Post columns with agency pick up at local drug stores. Listings include help wanted, sales, services, and yard notices, with strict posting times and no free ads after hours.
Classified ads list laborers for grading and concrete at 14th and Decatur, with foremen named Monroe, Bomar, and E Saxton. Also offered are liberal salary and commission to attract buyers for northwest real estate on easy payments, plus job openings for office, shop, and trades, including plumbers, clerks, porters, readers, stenographers, waiters, and a partner in electrical business. Various addresses in Washington area.
Classified notices show a broad mix of job ads for maids cooks dressmakers chambermaids and other household help in Washington area. Entries specify age color and experience with employers and some boxes to send responses. Several personal assistant and stenography roles are listed alongside housekeeping positions at hotels and private homes.
In Washington the Domestic Guild advertises abundant positions from butlers to chambermaids and cooks. Listings urge experienced white and colored workers, with wages up to $60 monthly, applying at 804 17th Street NW or 604 17th Street NW and nearby addresses, with many morning or early time slots and notes on references.
A late 19th or early 20th century classified page seeks nurses maids cooks chauffeurs coaches and many other domestic staff. Listings specify race preferences age hours and wages with locations centered on 17th and 7th streets in Washington and multiple private families. Many roles require experience references neatness and ability to sew mend or cook.
Long list of job ads seeks servants and helpers in DC area. Positions include watchman, office errand boy, shipping clerk, stenographer, chambermaid, waitress, maid, laundress, cook, compa n ion nurse, dresser, nurse, and more. Emphasis on experience, references, and American or colored workers. contact details at 804 17th st NW or 304 Tits st NW. Guild screen urges subscribers to register.
Miscellaneous ad column items offer cash for a single wagon, and passage passes to Atlanta and Mobile this month, with other misc wants including a sewing machine, firearm details, licenses, and various goods for sale or exchange in a dense 19th or early 20th century classifieds page.
A collage of classified notices seeks nurses and domestic workers. Listings request experienced nurses for infants and children, night care, and live-in positions with references, in neighborhoods like 3 Stoneleigh Court and 7th Street NW, with wages and start dates specified. Other ads seek seamstresses, a reader, a repairer, and general servants, noting race where stated and including contact times and addresses such as 1428 1st Ave, 1719 Corcoran St, and 1704 B Street NW.
An assortment of job ads seeks in several roles including a servant, stenographer, Latin and math teacher, trained nurse, typist, office assistant, waist trimmers, waitresses, and a stenographer with pension experience. Listings request applications at various addresses in Washington area and note schedules and wage expectations.
An advertisement offers ladies a chance to dispose of modern street and evening gowns jewelry diamonds and furs with Mr M Scheuer who will visit Washington on Tuesday February 6 to purchase items. Also numerous buy and sell notices for used clothing furniture and services and items such as carpets rugs wardrobes and a repeating waiser extension grip.
A crowded ad page lists miscellaneous goods for sale including a lawn bench, oak bedstead, stove, bicycles, a high grade bicycle, a ticket to New York by rail, a Sokol Clock Repairing Co service, fur coat, china closet, Remington typewriter, a Mexican saddle, sewing attachments, a gas motor, sanitaria couches, bedroom suites, and assorted secondhand items. Also offers pawn tickets, canary birds, and various exchanges or trades. Many entries include addresses in the 12th to 14th streets and nearby areas, with prices and conditions noted.
A long page-wide list details numerous lost personal items including leather goods, pocketbooks, metal watches, pins, a gold chain, beads, a pearl clasp, and a blue train of items with rewards offered. Names appear with partial addresses and dates, urging return to owners at various local streets and avenues for reward.
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