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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1906
Page
6
Free small ads run in Post columns with limits on days and times. Numerous agency contacts, positions offered, sales, and service notices appear, including help wanted, sales pitches, and rental inquiries across Washington areas.
Classified help wanted and job listings. Foremen Monroe and Bomar with E Saxton seek laborers for grading and concrete at 14th and Decatur. Numerous positions described including clerical, shop, and skilled trades with contact details at 609 15th St NW and other downtown addresses.
A dense classifieds strip lists numerous job and domestic help ads targeted at women. Roles include chambermaids, cooks, laundresses, general housework, waitresses, dressmakers, milliners, and experienced office helpers, with locations around city addresses and several hotels. Many entries specify white or colored workers and nightly or live-in arrangements, some offering training, reference requirements, and varying pay.
Help wanted ads from the Washington Domestic Guild list numerous positions for cooks, chambermaids, seamstresses, laundresses, waitresses, coachmen, and companions. Employers seek experienced, white or colored staff for private families and hotels, with wages ranging from $12 to $60 monthly and various night duties. Apply at 804 17th St NW or 605 17th St NW. positions include chambermaid, cook, nurse, and general houseworker roles.
In a Washington area help wanted ad, numerous positions are listed including nurses, chambermaids, waitresses, cooks, chauffeurs, butlers, coachesmen, and hotel clerks. The notices specify white and colored applicants, experience requirements, English skills, sewing ability, and night shifts, with many postings at 804 17th Street NW and related streets.
The notice advertises numerous daily positions including watchman porter stenographer clerk chambermaid cook and companion roles. It lists applicants by race and age with calls to apply at addresses on 804 17th street nw and surrounding streets, urging subscribers to register with the guild for placement. It stresses honesty and the need for good references and mentions telephone contact.
Miscellaneous classified items offered for sale or exchange. Requests include a single wagon cheap for cash, a singer sewing machine, a 36-gauge shotgun or .232 rifle, a real estate broker's license, a power prism binocular, and various household goods, bicycles, and tools. Respondents provide addresses, references, or BOX numbers.
Classified notices offer positions for nurses of various backgrounds to care for infants and children, night shifts, and housework with references required. Also seeking a refined reader, a repairer in a tailor shop, seamstresses, and domestic helpers with location notes across Washington D C addresses.
A jumble of job ads lists positions for an eighteen year old servant, stenographer, Latin and math teacher, trained nurse, and office assistants. Other openings include a typist, sari waist workers, waitresses, and a young lady stenographer. Multiple addresses and box numbers hint at an urban employment page seeking female workers with varied qualifications.
A Washington notice invites women to dispose of modern street and evening gowns jewelry diamonds and furs by meeting buyer M Scheuer in Washington then mailing to 319 W Mulberry St Baltimore Md Also listed are ads for carpets to be woven into rugs affordable used furniture and a range of secondhand items with contact details for purchases and sales
Numerous items offered for sale in the listing including lawn bench in good condition, oak bedstead, stove, bicycles, high grade bicycle parts, a canary birds, sewing machines, china closet, and a folding pocket Kodak. Also listed are pawn tickets, gas launch, coins, and a range of miscellaneous goods with locations mainly around 12th to 14th streets and northeast DC, with prices and viewing notes.
A long string of lost and found notices details items missing or found including leather wallets metal watches beads pins and gold chains. Rewards are offered for returns to various street addresses and named individuals across multiple neighborhoods with no single clear incident.
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