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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1919
Page
2
A crowded classified page lists job offerings across hotels, restaurants, manufacturing, and public services. It includes openings for managers, clerks, operators, painters, elevator attendants, and train workers, with wages, hours, and contact cues scattered amid street addresses and department notes.
WANTED males and temp workers for mailroom and proofing duties at Washington Post styled office. Includes corrosion and delivery roles. Apply to manager Shavert Gar Theater or Mr Whittleser Corculation Dept. Seek experienced proofreader and truck deliverer with clear qualifications.
Fragmented classified column lists opportunities for a young woman with some knowledge of Bet One. It advertises permanent positions in New York musical comedies, stenographic work, bookkeeper duties, and clerical examinations with training. Also notes seasonal domestic work, hotel desk jobs, and varied ads for colored or general housework, with phone or box responses and pay details.
Several employment notices seek a young stenography skilled woman to assist in an office at 2119 14th Street Northwest with a modest salary. Separate ads invite a young colored woman to work in a family setting six hours daily plus evenings at Calat barber shop and related locations with washing dishes and general duties.
Fragmentary Situations Wanted notice from Nome with garbled text. Mentions a man and wife seeking work as cook or servant roles. Field appears damaged with illegible names and address fragments. Not enough readable details to identify individuals or exact job terms.
A dense classified page offers multiple help wanted notices from clerks and trades to domestic staff. Entries include male youths seeking work as soda dispensers and drivers, a pianist offering accompaniment, janitors, draftsmen, and a draftsman seeking home drawing work, plus colored and white applicants advertising for day labor, housework, tutoring, and chauffeur or hotel clerk positions. Several letters specify locations in Washington and surrounding areas, with ages from teens to young adults and references available.
A collage of fragmented notices requests reward returns for various lost items. Items include handbags with owner names, bank books, jewelry such as watches pins diamonds and emeralds, keys, and assorted papers. Notifications name multiple contact locations and rewards offered across Washington area addresses and offices.
Advertisement compiles various business buy and sell offers from a newspapers classifieds page. It highlights a portable bath system sold at 96 50 by Charles Catch Agent 1244 22d street, plus listings for a cleaning and repair shop, pig farming ventures, memorial market proposition, a hotel sale near the Lincoln highway, and a stamp collection for sale or trade. Names, places, and contact box numbers are included.
Classifieds list many items for sale including coats suits and overcoats five dollars each, refrigerators at two hundred fifty, beds bureaus and dressers, baby carriages and a violin priced to move. Also posted are furniture, linotype metal pots, motors, tools, and a barber shop for sale with fixtures.
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