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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1906
Page
9
The Post announces free classed ads for wants and rooms up to a word limit with one ad per person per issue. Ads may be left at offices or mailed, with delivery via participating drug stores for a small fee, and inquiries directed to care of a person or box. free ads after hours have restrictions.
Classified notice seeking workers for farm tasks and housing. Includes wages and board offer, plus another ad for shorthand and typewriting courses at Stenographic Academy with course details and contact info. Addresses and names appear in noisy OCR.
A chaotic street of job ads seeking bricklayers carpenters clerks bootblacks cooks and general laborers. The notes mention wages hours and locations with multiple addresses and employers offering steady work and temporary positions across various firms and neighborhoods.
A dense listing of employment notices includes drivers, office staff, cashiers, foremen, porters, dairy workers, laborers, and skilled trades. Opportunities span general work, bookkeeping, typing, hotel tasks, farm labor, route delivery, and sales, with many ads asking for sober, industrious men and references.
A historical classifieds page shows numerous help wanted notices seeking women for domestic work, including white and colored applicants. Positions include general housework, chambermaid, cook, laundress, and attendant duties with varied wages, locations, and trade-off terms. Several BOX and office references appear for responses.
Wide-ranging classified notice offers COOKS WAITRESSES CHAMBERMAIDS and general housework jobs. Ads seek white and colored applicants for private homes hotels and boarding houses with various duties from washing to cooking to laundering. Locations include 604 17th St NW 324 F St NW and 4476 at. NW with multiple positions for young women and domestic roles.
Miscellaneous lost items listed with descriptions and contact rewards including a Scotch collie, a black silk umbrella, a leather cigar case, a gun metal watch, a black cocker spaniel, a gold ring, and a lady’s jewelry item. All items request return to specified Washington DC addresses with rewards offered for recovery.
A long scanned page lists numerous lost items and rewards including gold locket, leather pocketbook, breast pin, diary, parasol, pin, and various accessories. Names such as Ward, Murray & Co and individuals like Mrs Hayes and J J Northwood appear with locations around The Raleigh Hotel, The Wyoming, Lincoln Hotel, and The Navy Department. Rewards offered for return to specific addresses or offices.
Found purse with money and dates July 3 and July 31. Found gold brooch wreath shape in two sets of stones. Found near Capitol grounds a lady's silver watch with initials. Found a coach dog about 10 years old with a heavy feather collar. Apply P. J. Kee at ith and H streets.
Widespread classified snippets offer to pay top dollar for worn clothing shoes hats and other wearables. Entrants list contact points W Rick Justh and J Tarshes with phone numbers and addresses for door pickup and cash offers.
A jumble of classified style notices offers a young man’s piano business in Washington requiring honesty and full dedication with full details requested. Other items include sale listings for a railroad hotel venture, a paying property investment, a cafe business, stock brokerage services, and a patent information service alongside rental notices and a billiard room space.
A faded notice lists carpet weaving and fire art with a phone contact 2125. It advertises rental or purchase options, camping tents, and terms. The fragment references a Washington Rug Co location and an office address, but details are unclear.
A cluttered page of classified snippets offers storage services for furniture at Dallding 136 Sth st for a dollar per load per month, pawn tickets and cash paid for old gold and diamonds, requests for a permanent maid, a grocery store for sale, and numerous small ads. Names and partial addresses appear amid incomplete notices and requests, with asks for lessons, house rental, a dog for sale, a boat rental, and various job and personal ads.
Used piano bargains dominate this sale list with Knabe and Steinway uprights, a mahogany Cecifion player, and other pianos from rent and sale listings. Also offered are bicycles, a double oak bed, furniture, a go cart, a poodle, a puppy, a parlor suite, art, and various tools and instruments in DC vicinity, with prices and contact points.
A cluttered miscellany of sale notices lists a clarinet, gas engine, typewriter, rugs, cooking ranges, linens, bicycles, and more. Items like a thoroughbred Leghorn cock, a white steamer, and a Redbird stove appear with prices, contact notes, and locations such as 2321 Ontario and 609 G St. NW, reflecting a busy urban classified page with bargain seeks and seller contacts.
Classified ad lists a wide range of household items for sale including parlor and dining-room furniture, carpet, folding desks and bookcases, wardrobes, beds, chairs, rockers, dressers, sideboards and a mahogany divan. Items are offered at various prices with viewing times and address 422 Ist St NW and 26 Jo7r St NW.
Local ads advertise buying and selling of furniture carpets stoves bric a brac and household goods. Baum's Furniture Shop urges customers to call North 1823 for best prices. Snitzer & Laporte offer cash for entire contents at 716% 7th St with North 1102 phone. Hopwood promotes anteo furniture for cash and selling goods to the man who gives you the most money.
A mixed set of situational wanted ads lists caretaking and domestic positions, including a caretaker couple for summer house duty, a reliable man for general house tasks, an apprentice boy seeking trades, an auto tiremaker, a singer, a bartender, a colored maid, a bookkeeper, and a painter among others. Several offers specify location in Washington area with BOX or address references and contact methods.
A long mixed block of help wanted and personal ad items listing male job seekers by trade, race, and location. Entrants include church choir bass singers, clerks, drivers, cooks, janitors, gardeners, blow by line items with boxes for office offices and addresses in Washington area.
Female workers seek positions as dressmakers, companions, chambermaids, cooks, housekeepers, and clerks. Many postings by Washington Domestic Guild and private ads offer these roles with varying hours, wages, and references. positions range city or suburban, including summer leave and special skills.
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