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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1906
Page
13
The Washington Post outlines a free want ad policy for readers, noting one free ad per person per day and no free business ads. It lists multiple agency drug stores where ads can be dropped, each charging five cents per advertisement and providing delivery to The Post.
A denseOCR classified list shows varied opportunities and notices. Listings include reading Shakespeare helpers, music composers, caterers, housekeepers, stenographers, clerks, barbers, drivers, sales staff, and tutors, with many addresses and contact cues across Washington area venues and firms. Many postings request experience, references, or immediate employment, spanning roles from domestic work to technical drafting and machine shop tasks.
Classified listing shows a dense notice for domestic service positions. It advertises roles for cooks, cleaners, waitresses, maids, babysitters, and general housework with various requirements, including color preferences and experience. The long column names multiple employers and locations around NW Washington, inviting applications and interviews.
Horses and vehicles ad offers a fine bay horse six years old with driver and saddle, viewable after noon, price 4150. Also a pacing horse Dan W with speedway potential and five good drivers sought near James New York Ave. Additional item listed as Bowen's staple 62% likely miscellaneous.
Miller Safes at 101 3 Hanover St Pattimore advertises sale of safes in multiple weights 250 325 400 and 10 pound options with prices listed for rapid purchase.
SITUATIONS AND HELP WANTED in Washington DC offers numerous domestic staffing positions. The Washington Domestic Guild at 804 17th St NW lists maids cooks chambermaids waitresses and menial workers with generous wages and night shifts. bookings for hotels boarding houses private families and summer hotel staff are being taken. applicants from colored and white backgrounds urged to apply with references.
A dense 1920s classified page listing cheap items for sale and wanted ads. Items include a neckpiece, ladies bicycle, brass lamp, fine double boss piano, a National Cash Register, a typewriter, a square piano, incubator stock, furniture, a portable pool table, harness, caligraph typewriter, a steam engine, a buggy, a horse, a grocery wagon, a phonograph, a folding bed, and various household furnishings. Also notes a married couple leaving town disposing of a four-room flat and a dog for sale, with addresses and contact details.
A spotted cash sale offers furniture and household items including carpets being woven into decorative rugs. Advertisements seek buyers for antique mahogany furniture and scales of various uses. Several notices request items like typewriters and office furniture, while others advertise manufacturing services and job printing capacity.
An earnest notice from the Washington Domestic Guild urges honest cheerful effort from members and invites registration for positions. It provides contact details: 04 17th St. NW and Main 1345.
A cluttered page lists secondhand furniture a mahogany bookcase a roll top desk and a blue typewriter several inquiries seek a canteen size washer and washroom supplies a Cadillac car model a gravel pit firm handles washed sand and gravel and a special sale of 20 dozen silk chiffon trimming appears among the notices.
A chaotic classified column offers cheap used goods. Items include a plate camera complete for ten dollars, a Remington No. 3 in repair, a Mystic Danio with cover, a wand lever press chest, gray skirt and jacket, wine buddy harness, portable pool table Willard table, Rhode Island Reds, a Yale lathe and electric bracket lamp, a camera outfit, a desk, an invalid chair, a go cart, crates of hench, a coal oil heating stove, and other miscellaneous bargains with seller contact at J. E. Brown Alexandria Virginia and MENDOTA No. 7.
A dense string of classified requests seeks exchanges and sales for items including a Shakespeare hand printing press, a two cylinder atomosule electric auto, shorthand instruction, a rambling runabout, a light oak furniture set, a dress, a lady owning house storage use, a 38 breast frock coat, a small bicycle for a boy, and a customs service clerkship. Names and streets are scattered amid unusual abbreviations and typos.
A jumble of lost and found notices lists jewelry watches rings keys and a dog in Alexandria and Washington DC areas. Items include a gold necklace charm a knight Templar pin a turquoise bracelet and a black and white dog named Nero with various reward offers for return.
A long OCR fragment catalogs numerous lost and found notices from a historic newspaper page. Items include pocketbooks, gold watches, eyeglasses, a white Cuban poodle, a brown neckpiece, a gold medal, a blue lapel pin, a terrier named Jerry, and Masonic emblems. Each entry provides a description, location hints, and rewards or contact details, with people like J. G. Duke, Mrs. S. Burnt Stine, and others cited for returns.
Classified personals list asks for high cash prices paid for used garments and goods, offering contact details and addresses. Also advertises beauty services, fortune telling, and various domestic helper positions with names, phone numbers, and locations across Washington Northwest and downtown areas.
A flood of 1920s help wanted notices list janitors, waiters, stenographers, clerks, and general labor with addresses and BOX numbers. The classifieds show color workers, entry level roles, and positions like bookkeeper, porter, and typist with salary hints and experience requests.
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