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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1907
Page
12
Notice explains free advertising in columns for Wanted Help Wanted Situations For Rent Rooms Lost and Found and other acceptable notices. Limited to one advertisement per day per person and responses sent on first reply. Emphasizes no imposition on readers and necessity to secure desired ads.
The Washington Post public notices outline advertising rules and agency locations for want ads. Agencies are listed by region with pharmacy partners at streets like 7th and L, 17th and H, Vermont and 1st, and others in Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Anacostia. Prices per ad are noted and timing restrictions apply.
Help wanted notices seek men and women for government clerks posts and civil service exam prep. Includes offers of commissions, meals, and confidential communications with contact details and workplace locations.
Classified ads list numerous positions including barbers drivers clerks porters and key roles in tailoring jewelry and printing with wage offers and locations across Berwyn Miller's Washington area. Also seeks domestic workers cooks chambermaids and general housework staff with ages genders and specific duties noted.
Mixed job ads and notices list waiters salesmen and a secretary position. Addresses include Navy Department area and 14th Street plus 903 Waiter Cafe hours and a kidney medicine ad. Contains names like J L Harmon and John Weddersurn Co with misread text and partial lines.
The Washington Domestic Guild lists multiple positions including laundress and maid duties. Applicants sought include white laundresses for summer in Narragansett Pier, two white nurses for children, a white maid for invalid care, a colored light-housework helper, and other domestic roles with wages stated or negotiable.
Mixed classified notes offer a Remington typewriter, stock shares, a ship launch, canaries, a Spanish decoration, an antique mandolin, a walnut bedroom set, a Masler safe, a sailboat, a gas range, and many household items. Listings include Box numbers and contact notes, with cash or on terms.
A dense advertisement offers piano bargains including an Enabe Rosewood baby grand and Knabe upright with various prices, plus a 20 piano sale with uprights from $90. Also lists furniture, dishes, window sash, a fine upright McCammon piano for $85, a violin set, a boarding house, an ice crusher, and a range of lost-and-found notices with numerous rewards and contact details.
The personals section lists MR. DAOUD a famed Oriental palmist offering life and business guidance at Studio 1622 st mw with hours 10 am to 8 pm and a call to mail-in inquiries. It also parrots buyers offering highest cash prices for worn garments, hats, shoes, and assorted clothing, with several addresses and phone numbers for drop-off or postal contact.
A collage of exchange offers and notices appears for property, items, and services. Listings include a $1200 civil service clerk exchange, acreage exchange near a highway and electric line, favorable income property proposals, a cheerful room exchange, a washing machine for rug, an automobile for horse and carriage, piano lessons for exchange, clerks seeking postings, medicinal whiskey sale, and typewriters with packaging services.
A long column of small ads seeks bargains and purchases. Items include a camera, second hand buggy tops, a good second hand typewriter, a Morris canoe with complete equipment, canaries without cages, a dental foot engine, a driving horse for suburban months care, a mattress, an invalid rolling chair, a motorcycle in good condition, an upright Steinway piano, a lawn swing, a roll top desk, an office chair, a sewing machine for Sighrah, a young couple seeking a tax-free house share, and an automobile in first class order for cash. It also advertises rental Wellington typewriters for 2 dollars first month and 160 dollars thereafter and cash for pawn tickets and valuables.
Miscellaneous item listing mining stocks and a few short notices. Includes contact by Stuart Ellis & Co in Maryland Building and a Givens Away notice for a watchdog mascot named Daschhund. Also advertises medicinal whiskey at two dollars per gallon from John Wedderbury Company.
A series of ads offer a secretary treasurer post with stock, a real estate and insurance business, complete fixtures from Boston market, a treasurer for a Norfolk trust company with stock requirements, an electric runabout trade for equity or horse, a furnished house with business, an Armour-icing storage station in Alexandria, a 28‑room small hotel, medicinal whiskey, and kidney bladder remedy, plus patent and trademark information from J R Nottingham in Washington D C.
Storage selloff by diplomats and Senators who left Washington offers grand and single horse to six seat carriages, traps, wagons, phaetons, harness, saddles, bridles, plus an automobile and 60 army saddles. Call Willard Storage Office at 400 to 410 14th St aw for inspection and bargains. Also wanted buyers and horses, carriages, and harness.
A dense classified item offers numerous domestic service roles and applicants. Positions include butlers, maids, cooks, housemen, bartenders, porters, stenographers, clerks, and drivers seeking summer, full time, or seasonal work with strong references. Many entries specify wages, languages, and origins among English German Italian Spanish and colored workers.
A long list of Situations Wanted ads from Washington men and women seeks work. Featured roles include typewriter work, upholsterer, utility man, valet, waiter, watchman, and various chambermaid or companion positions. Applicants boast foreign language skills, strong references, and willingness to travel or relocate, with boxes and addresses noted for correspondence.
Classified ad list for domestic workers in Washington offers numerous positions. Opportunities include cooks, laundresses, general houseworkers, maids, nurses, companions, and parlour maids. Many specify wages, references, and requests to apply through The Washington Domestic Guild at 730 18th Street NW.
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