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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1906
Page
13
The notice explains free want ads in small columns with limits on word count and placement times. It lists agency locations and pharmacists in Northwest Northeast Southeast Southwest regions and Anacostia for dropping ads with a five cent delivery fee per advertisement.
Classified listings seek agents earning 29 monthly from Wolfarine Co offering immediate dishwasher promotion. Also seeking tutor or teacher for several youths and a shorthand and typing course with guaranteed positions. Box 105 in the local office lists applicants.
A dense, period auction of domestic, craft, and service job ads lists positions with brief hooks. Includes roles for architects, clerks, editors, drivers, waitstaff, dishwashers, gardeners, stewards, porters, maids, and laborers. Addresses and contact instructions tout friendly unions and guilds, with several firm locations noted in Washington area.
Classified ads list multiple employment opportunities across trades and services in Washington areas. Positions include salesmen, hotel staff, stenographers, bookkeepers, waitresses, chambermaids, cooks, laundresses, clerks, and general housework workers. Many entries specify race where noted, wages, locations, and application methods.
Classifieds announce immediate openings for a first class pastry cook for a tea room and multiple stenographer and typewriter positions. Also listings for seamstress, waitresses of various backgrounds, and a working housekeeper, all seeking quick hires and references in Washington area.
Various wants and ads for storage, cash for valuables, buying trunks, steamer gear, typewriters, bicycles, law books, and more. Notices seek cash payments, cheap prices, and quick deals at multiple addresses including 420 Sh st mx 423 Sth st mw and 600 Prather Dods.
A dense misc classified ad block lists items for sale including a WGVOLT fan, a Rambler automobile, a camera lens with accessories, a Gillette safety razor set, violoncello, a talking parrot, a bicycle, a first class automobile, a Typwrighter Remington, a railroad vernier compass, large Latrobe items, a Harbor motor, a duplex duplicating machine, a pointer dog, scales, a fine tone piano, a dog, a feather bed, a mechanical drawing course, cushions, a Rambler bicycle, a sewing machine, a solitaire diamond ring, an upright piano, fox terrier puppies, English setter puppies, and true terrier puppies, with owners and contact locations in Washington area addresses.
Short advert lists used uprights and grands with discounted prices, rental returns, and special offers from Grimes Piano Stores and F. G. Smith Piano Co. Includes Kenabe and Her dman uprights, a Steinway Baby Grand, cash registers, and various home goods like mattresses and beds. Notable items feature prices from $10 to $509, with mentions of nationwide sales and pickup options.
Classified brief items listing exchanges for clothing and gear, a government clerk transfer in Washington, a free office and desk space offer, a Navy barometer for camera, and various secondhand items for sale. Also mentions summer board for signs on pipe and piano by a Cincinnati Conservatory student.
Fine carriages and horse gear offered for sale at Willard Storage Office 104 and 14014th Street NW. Includes new and used victorian rubber tires, road wagons, pony carts, phaetons, hacks, and harness with prices quoted in old currency. Inspect and bargain where storage items are advertised as specials.
Electrical supplies notice advertising electric fans for home and office use in all styles and sizes from National Electric Supply Co located at 1300 W Avenue.
Found items include a pocketbook with valuables and papers, a dog description given to J W Smith, and various rubber tired runabouts and hats renovated. Kendall & Co advertises carriages and umbrellas while Proby Carriage Co promotes fine wagons and delivery vehicles at Kendall & Co and Raleigh location.
A bustling classified note offers daily money saving opportunities on new and second hand furniture. Items include refrigerators desks chairs beds dressers stoves tables rugs and more with low prices and quick replies sought from local buyers.
Establishing a large second hand furniture shop advertises cash for furniture and house goods. Offers buying, selling, and trade of trunks, water colors, brushes, and baby carriages. Promises prompt service and the highest prices, with several local store names and contact numbers.
Classified notices offer partners for speculation with capital demands, secretarial posts, and investments. Listings include a furnished rental, manicure parlor for sale, poultry farm funding, fruit and oyster shop for sale, millinery business for sale, wholesale retail distress sale, and patent information service. Names include BOX numbers and J. R. Nottingham.
In a fragmentary classified page a series of appeals detail high payments for cast off clothing for men and women, with various shop names and addresses and photos of tone. The ad blocks mention WANTED HIGHEST CASH PRICES PAID for cast off clothing and suits, low prices for dressing services, and detective agency contact lines.
Classified notices list a Butler by Seymour address 45 Stanleigh Court and his wife seeking positions as butler and chamber or pantry maid. Also notes a colored couple offering services as a maid houseman couple to travel north for the summer with references. another entry lists a nurse or chamber worker at 98 25th Street.
Readable items show multiple help wanted notices for chauffeurs cooks clerks drivers and labor roles. Names addresses and contact methods vary with many entries seeking neat reliable young men white or colored and often offering room or board or salary details in private households or hotels.
Female seek private family work in Washington DC area. Listings include first class cooks white and colored, laundress by day or home washing, housekeeper positions, and accompanying nurse or companion roles. Many entries provide references and availability for summer or out-of-city placement. Individuals specify cities and addresses in brief notices.
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