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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1906
Page
11
The Washington Post lists free want ads with strict limits on content and length. Advertisers may place one ad per person per day, with no business ads without payment, and must use specified drug stores or the Post office for submissions. Ads must be under fifteen words and published before 9 PM on weekdays and before 5 PM on Saturdays if free.
Numerous help wanted notices from a vintage classified page. Listings include agents, stenography, sales, barbering, clerical, restaurant, janitorial, and labor roles. Names, addresses, and box numbers appear. some entries reference organizations or employers alongside job requirements and pay terms.
A dense string of job requests seeks male workers in crafts, music, and service roles. Listings include a shoemaker, tenor for a quartet, farm hands, warehouse and office work, instrument markers, cooks, waiters, and domestic help. Pay and locations vary, with multiple addresses in Washington DC area and mentions of firms like A & P Agency and Wilser Instrument Works. Several entries specify race and marital status, reflecting period hiring norms.
Classifieds show numerous domestic work postings. Positions include cook, chambermaid, companion, general houseworker, and trained servant roles in Washington DC area, listing wages, hours, and locations. Recruits invited to Posner’s, Columbia Market, Harvard Laundry, and private families, with emphasis on white and colored applicants.
A dense collection of classified help wanted notices for women, including light housework, night shifts, nursing for a baby, millinery sales, waitressing, and household tasks. Various locations and contact boxes appear, with pay offered and specific gender and race descriptions. The postings show a range from housekeeping to specialized roles, with several requests for white or colored women and notes on residency and hours.
Numerous notices report lost items including a green pocketbook on Q Street Northwest with 15 cents and a car ticket, a circular diamond pin near Columbia Theater, a gold medal watch for FW Carroll, a gold pin from Columbia Boat Club, a yellow oil tag, and other trinkets. Rewards offered. owners urged to return to specified addresses in Washington DC area. A few stray items include a voice pin, a stray terrier, and a black pocketbook with pension check.
The ad lists used furniture and housewares for sale including bedroom sets, folding couches, chairs, stoves, kitchen items, rugs, mats, wardrobes, tables, desks, dressers, and chests. It notes moving out of the city, quantities, and prices with several contact options and box addresses for responses.
Cash paid for furniture and household goods by Baum's Furniture Shop and others. Listings seek to buy large iron or brass bedsteads, lounge sofas, chests, chiffoniers, and entire house contents. Local buyers include CAMMACK & BRO, Hopwood, Dickinson and Sniteer & Laporte offering high spot cash, prompt service, and broad purchase scope.
Classified items advertise wholesale and retail flour and wood businesses for sale or lease, a cigar store prop with rooms, a large undeveloped coal and timber tract investment, and a basement dining kitchen rental. Also notes on note collection agency, a cash business for sale earning $160 monthly, a grocery store for sale, a large floor rent, patent and trademark information from Nottinghams Trade Office.
An ad notes a pure white perfect 1X carat diamond exchange and a bargain price of 175 dollars, now 148 with urgency. The listing promotes selling clocks, clothing and related items at 8th Street and Ninth, plus multiple buyers offering highest cash for cast-off garments and shoes.
Classifieds list numerous job seekers including butler, chauffeur, cook, janitor, elevator conductor, porter, gardener, stenographer, clerk, and general labor. Many entries specify English or colored workers, with references offered, ages from young adults to middle aged, and locations around 17th Street NW and nearby avenues.
Classified ads show diverse job seekers including young men and a white Pennsylvania resident. Entries include a wagon jumper, a colored boy, a waller or beelboy, a first class paperhanger and painter seeks hotel or real estate work, a watchman janitor, and a vigorous middle aged man from Pennsylvania with mild lame ness. Addresses given in Buffalo and Philadelphia area.
A lengthy residential help ad column offering positions for a dressmaker seamstress housekeeper linen room assistant chambermaid waitress companion and more. Listings seek refined white or colored women and girls for summer work, often citing addresses and box numbers for responses.
A chaotic collection of help wanted notices includes a refined lady seeks immediate work at 611 Pa Ave with nursing, chambermaid, or plain cooking. Several ads seek maids, nursery governesses, pantry or linen room help in hotels and boarding houses. Other lines offer plain sewing, seamstressing, or typing at home, aging positions, and waitressing. Many entries specify white women, English refinements, or specific hours and locations, with responses directed to offices, box numbers, or addresses on 6th Street and H Street.
Four rooms for rent large light and well ventilated all night elevator service no charge for heating or janitor service Two at 539 sick tees at a bad business Crew For junding A-DON'T BOTHER TO HUNT Rooms WE find them for you without charge Washington Rental Bureau Metzerott Building myis-deseve 2200 To WELDS RENTAL BUREAU AY 1TH at HIGH-CLASS ROOMS BOARDING HOLL FREE E AND FLATS FURNISHED
Numerous furnished rooms for rent listed across Northwest and Northeast Washington. Offerings include front hall and connecting rooms, single and double rooms, and suites in private homes and apartment buildings. Some include board, heat, baths, and car-line proximity near Franklin Park, Capitol Hill, and Columbia Heights.
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