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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1906
Page
17
The Washington Post announces free want ad space with limits on word count and insertion frequency. Advertisers are advised to use agency locations in drug stores and to avoid initials only addresses, with ads due before 9 pm on weekdays and no Saturday postings after noon.
Classifieds list varied occupations from agents and solicitors to barbers clerks dishwashers and drivers. It highlights opportunities with pay ranges benefits and short forms for applicants including references and addresses.
A MS list of help wanted ads from a historical paper includes male help for shoemaker, violinists, waiters, a singing quartet, office work, and specialized trades. Entries show addresses in northwest Washington and numbers like 2506 Pa ave and 1210 18th st. nw. The page also notes two married men for farm work and a Panama relocation ad with cooking duties.
A flood of classified ads seeks workers across many roles including cookers, chambermaids, companions, clerical staff, and general houseworkers. Listings specify race and color preferences, wages, and locations in Washington DC area towns and nearby suburbs, with many entries for white and colored women and varying salary offers.
A garbled 1900s era help wanted section lists many job ads for light housework, nurses, millinery workers, waitresses, a bartender, and general domestic staff. It includes entries seeking white and colored women, night shifts, and various locations such as 1214 7th St NW and 804 17th St NW, with remuneration notes and application instructions through office boxes.
A dense clipping lists numerous lost items with dates in June and locations around Q Street NW Dupont Circle McLean area and Northwest Washington. Items include a green pocketbook with letters and 15 cents, a circular diamond pin, a gold watch, a gold bracelet, a collar pin, a purse, and an ivory or enamel pin. Rewards offered at various addresses including 1336 Corcoran Street, 1924 MacKay Avenue, and 1822 East? Street Northeast. Also multiple lost items such as eyeglasses, a tan belt, a gold ring, a dog, and a pocketbook with pension checks. Found items include a purse, umbrella, and various items in transit. Contact numbers and addresses provided for returns and rewards.
Old time classified listing offers bedroom sets folding wire couches and chairs stoves mats and mattresses. Includes antique oak and mahogany pieces, dressers chiffoniers wardrobes beds desks and closets. Various prices from cash offers with notices for leaving the city and deliveries at area addresses.
Spot cash offered for furniture and household goods including stoves bric a brac and bric brac. Local dealers Cammack and Bro advertise buying entire contents of houses offering best prices and prompt service. Contact addresses include 14th and A sts NW 903 Colorado Building and 67 La. Ave Tar. areas.
A jumble of classified notices advertises bargain wholesale flour wholesale and tobacco goods with various offerings. It mentions a cigar store for sale at 1512 7th St NW plus interests in undeveloped coal and timber assets. Also listed are a basement dining room rental, note collection services, a cash business for sale earning $160 monthly, and other rental and patent information notices.
The notice contains multiple classified lines offering a 1X carat diamond for 175 dollars, cash for cast-off clothing, and requests for high cash prices for coats, ladies and gentlemen's wear, and shoes. Several ads promote services such as magnetic scalp massage and fortune telling, with contact details and locations on Ninth Street, Seventh Street, and nearby avenues.
A garbled help wanted page lists numerous butler and domestic postings. It shows varied wording for English and French speakers, including wages and duties, with applicants sought for butler roles, coachman, cook, and caretaker posts, plus appearances by colored and white applicants seeking private service work across several addresses.
Classified notices show several job related requests and helpers. Listings include a first class paperhanger and painter seeking permanent hotel or real estate work, a watchman or janitor position, a middle aged white man from Pennsylvania seeking work, and a strong healthy job seeker with minor ailment offering dependable service. all ask interested employers to address respective contacts.
A 1920s era classified listing offers a flood of job inquiries for women seeking work as dressmakers, chambermaids, waitresses, housekeepers, companions, nurses, and laundresses. Numerous ads call for refined, educated, or experienced applicants, with details on summer positions, city or out-of-town assignments, and required references. Also seeks a Colomb girl and a governess-like assistant for various household and personal service roles.
Classified notice fragment offering positions for a refined lady, a nurse, nursery governess, pantry and hotel service, pastry cook, typist, seamstresses, plain sewing at home, dressmaking, and waitresses. Includes box contact and office references, with multiple listings for domestic workers and related roles.
Four rooms for rent with generous light and ventilation. All-night elevator service and heating and janitor services at no charge. Two rooms listed at 539 Sick Tees. Washington Rental Bureau advertises free matching service in Metzerott Building and AY 1TH & at High Class Rooms Boarding Hall Furnished flats available through Wells Rental Bureau.
Furnished rooms for rent across multiple northwest listings near Franklin Park and Capitol area. Options include front hall, connecting, and two-story rooms with modern baths, private families, and varying terms from $1 to $30 per month. Some have breakfast, heat, and phone service. others offer house sharing and summer rates.
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