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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1906
Page
9
The notice explains free want ads up to fifteen words in small columns with limits on timing and day, plus paid ads rules. It lists agency locations in Northwest and surrounding districts, urging use of pharmacies as drop points and detailing boundaries for free submissions and delivery constraints.
A jumble of job notices advertises agents required to earn S29 monthly with a new patented dishwashing product from Wolfarine Co at Flitsberg PA. Also seeking tutor or teacher for several youths and shorthand typewriting students. box 105 addresses coaching offers with a range from free to limited days. EMT and stenographic academy details included with address 315-219 Colorado Bridge.
Classified help want ads from 17th Street area emphasize domestic hires and employment services. Listings include housekeepers, cooks, waiters, drivers, maids, gardeners, porters, and various clerical roles, with contact details and salary cues across multiple agencies and employers.
A dense selection of job ads and labor notices from a Washington DC area newspaper lists openings across many trades. Entries seek sober salespeople, waiters, stenographers, clerks, bookkeepers, cooks, chambermaids, and general houseworkers including colored and white applicants with varying experience and ages.
Female help wanted for pastry cooksen stenographers and typewriters sought for various offices. Positions include stenographer and typewriter, telex operator, and waitresses. Applicants must be rapid neat accurate and experienced. openings in private homes offices and hotels with flexible hours and wages. Locations include Washington DC and Clifton Forge VA with specific street addresses and contact notes.
Classified notices describe storage service offers furniture vaults at 420 Sh st mx for one dollar per load monthly and hauling at 1.25 per load, with payment options. Other ads seek cash for jewelry and furs, offers to buy trunks, steamer trunks, typewriters, watches, and secondhand gear, plus requests for stenography, real estate, and investments.
Numerous listings include a WGVOLT fan for Buison Graphophone, Rambler Rambler vehicle note, camera gear with carrying case and lenses, a Gillette safety razor set, a violoncello, a talking parrot, bicycles, a typewriter, a railroad engineer compass, drawing scales, a pointer dog, scales, fine upholstery, a drafting course, a shepherd dog, feather bed, a sewing machine, a solitaire diamond ring, a upright piano, fox terrier puppies, English setter puppies, and true terrier puppies. Prices range from modest to two hundred plus dollars, with contact details at various city addresses.
A Philadelphia style classified page advertises discounted pianos and household goods with many upright pianos in mahogany or rosewood cases, small grand and baby grand sale items, rental stock being cleared before summer, and reductions on cash registers, phonographs, and related items from Grimes Piano Stores and F G Smith Piano Co. Also listed are beds, mattresses, and miscellaneous sale items with contact details for pickup or inquiry.
Multiple classified items offer exchanges or free offers from a Washington area clerk and government offices. Dresses and suits trade for regalia, a navy barometer, typewriter space, bicycles, and dictionary sets. Several entries seek transfers within government departments and signaled by contact addresses in Washington and New York.
Fine imported carriages and harness offered for sale at Willard Storage Office 104 and 406 14th Street NW near Peabody. Items include one horse coach, runabout, hackney cart, phaeton, and leather fittings with new tires and ornate trim. Sale call to inspect remaining stock and bargains.
National Electric Supply Co advertises a range of electric fans for home and office use in all styles and prices. The ad notes the firm at 1300 W Avenue offering the products.
Found pocketbook with valuables and papers, owner to claim. Found a young setter dog sighted at Washington bathing beach. Advertises new vehicles such as rubber-tired runabouts and speed runabouts for sale. Kendall & Co and Proby Carriage Co offer carriages, wagons, hats, and umbrella tops with various prices and services.
Daily column highlights money saving deals on new and second hand furniture including refrigerators desks chairs beds and household items. Ads list prices from 1 to 150 with items such as oak folding beds dining tables dressers sideboards rugs and a rosewood piano plus a reclining go cart and a sanitary couch.
Advertisement notices by Baum's Furniture Shop and Hopwood Bid and Bets offer to buy and sell new and secondhand furniture for cash. Listings include go carts baby carriages trunks water colors and brushes. Nearby stores promise immediate service and the highest prices paid for all kinds of household goods.
Classified listings seek partners and investments with promised profits and stock offers. Items include a $600 capital partner, a $5000 to $10000 investor for a paying corporation, a furnished rental room sale, a manicure parlor for sale, a poultry farm investment, a fruit oyster store for sale, a millinery business on sale, a wholesale and retail distress sale, and patent information services.
Ad copy shows Persghals courting tips promising thrifty, stylish dress for couples with easy payments at convent of if. WANTED highest cash for cast-off clothing. Multiple names and contact phones advertise clothing resale and detective agency services.
Butler and wife seek positions as butler and chamber or pantry maid at Seymour address 45 Stanleigh Court in Seymour. English couple, first-class references, apply at 04 1st Street. Household servant and houseman roles offered. colored man and wife seek private family work to travel North for summer with best references. Also openings for an attendant nurse or chamber work at 98 25th Street.
A crowded column of help wanted and services offers, listing chauffeurs cooks clerks drivers janitors gardeners and more. Entries show ages genders and backgrounds with contact notes and box numbers for responses in the office.
Classified assortment of employment requests from cooks laundresses housekeepers nurses and general help. White and colored applicants seek private family work day labor or seasonal stints with locations and contact notes across Washington area. Many entries request best references and specify wage expectations or days per week.
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