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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1906
Page
9
The notice explains free small ads up to fifteen words with limits on frequency and type. It lists multiple Washington Post want ad agencies at drug stores with six cents per advertisement and provides locations by neighborhood and streets, urging readers to use nearby agencies for convenience.
Help wanted notice from Stenographic Academy listing a course in shorthand and typewriting for pupils. School claims enrollment from 20 to 80 days, location at 415-319 Colorado Building.
An old column lists numerous job ads including laborers, drivers, clerks, and service workers in Washington area. Employers seek sober, steady workers and note race where relevant. Positions span brick work, shoveling, delivery, hotel dining, janitorial, real estate, and railroad roles with age and experience notes.
Classified help wanted notices offer at home earnings and part time work with various recruiters. Posts promise flexible hours, low experience needs, and requests for women to respond for details. Locations listed include Lockport and other unspecified stamps, with notes on salaries and temp positions.
A dense historic help wanted column listing numerous positions for cooks and general housework. Advertisements specify race preferences, required experience, wages, and contact details across multiple addresses in Washington, often seeking colored or white women for domestic roles, including cooks, housekeepers, and nannies.
A long, cluttered list of lost items and rewards appears from Washington DC, including a lost red leather bag, gold framed glasses, a white fox terrier, a pearl pin, a satchel with personal papers, and various watches, rings, and wallets. Contact details and addresses are interspersed amid descriptions of locations and reward offers.
Local columns advertise cash paid for furniture carpets stoves bric a brac and all household goods. Dealers CAMMACK & BRO S N 627 MASS AVE NW and SNETZER & LAPORTE offer high spot cash prices for entire contents and large lots. Also services in moving trampt service and buying house contents in bulk.
Highest cash prices paid for cast off clothing and shoes. Readers urged to mail or postal to J Tarshes and Burnstein’s for pickups. Also psychic and detective services advertised along with a magnet massage and various personal ads from multiple vendors.
Classified notices advertise selling cash and credit furniture and carpets in downtown Washington. Also listed are a cheap store for sale, partnership opportunities, a large floor space for rent, and patent information services. Addresses include BOX 244 and BOX 84 with contact hints and attorney notices.
SITUATIONS WANTED butler by man and wife. English. For attions an butler and chamber or pantry maid. Apply tat 204 17th street. COOK OR HOUSEMAID-MAN AND WIFE, experienced, good refs required high wages. Cafl at 1637 Vermont Ave. no. 6 MAID AND WAITER-YOUNG WHITE, COUPLE, address, city or country. Address BOX 126 this omen.
A dense help wanted section lists a variety of positions including butler, waiter, elevator conductor, clerk, cook, driver, gardener, chef, houseman, janitor, and hotel staff. Many entries specify race, experience, and wages, with numerous box and street references for applications. The ads indicate a broad labor market in hospitality and domestic service across several DC addresses.
A garbled 20th century help wanted clippings list numerous classified notices. Entries seek a male tutor college graduate in math or physics, a home utility man, a colored waiter or butler, a whitewashing young man, wholesale sales help and general office work, with some addresses and references included.
A collage of classified requests from a 20th century paper: young women seeking nurse, governess, or chambermaid positions with good references and English. Listings include nursery governess, stenographer, teacher, and domestic roles. Addresses note locations in Northwest Washington and nearby areas.
A cluttered statewide want ad page offers rooms for rent and numerous small ads seeking caretakers chambermaids cooks and domestic help. Listings mention furnished rooms male and female applicants housekeeping laundry and companion positions with various ages and references requested across several DC area neighborhoods.
Multiple listings offer furnished rooms for rent near Dupont Circle and Farragut Square with options private bath shared kitchen and board. Rates range from affordable weekly to monthly, with some including meals and utilities. several entries note proximity to streetcar lines and central locations.
Classified ad requests country boarding with a gentleman and wife or refined private family, electric or steam car access, in Cleveland Park Chevy Chase. multiple listings for rooms and board in Washington DC area with prices and terms. includes access, shade, lawn, and references. agents and managers listed.
Vintage classified fragment lists boarding and lodging options in Staunton and nearby towns. It mentions private fatally op farm arrangements, rooms with telephone and bathroom, and various addresses in Bluemont Hyattsville and Laurel, with weekly rates and healthful settings.
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