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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1906
Page
13
A long editorial style notice explains free classified ads for rent wanted and small notices. It lists post office delivery rules initialed ads and multiple agency locations across Northwest Northeast Southeast and Anacostia with pharmacies and stores acting as drop points for five cent per ad submissions.
A textual fragment shows multiple classified ads for work and training. It lists positions and requests for cooks, stenographers, and shorthand typists, with addresses in Washington DC areas and notes on training schools and servant placement services. The readable items appear as historic help wanted notices with varied spellings and incomplete names.
An array of help wanted notices targets men and women, offering steady wages and temporary or permanent roles in factories, offices, and service trades. Listings seek applicants for positions from candy factory workers and drapery clerks to gardeners, janitors, and general laborers, with emphasis on neat appearance and reliability.
A dense classified notice lists numerous domestic helper roles in Washington, offering cooks, chambermaids, waitresses, laundresses, and general housework staff. It promotes the Washington Domestic Guild at 804 17th Street NW, with staffing for hotels, boarding houses, private families, and yearned staff, including experienced white and colored workers and special evening and night shifts.
The Washington Domestic Guild announces expansion with the Marseile on Twelfth Street offering electrical vibro and modern facial and hair treatments. Also seeks applicants for summer work including cooks, houseboys, chauffeurs, porters, and other positions with lodging options and hotel bookings services.
Classified notices appear offering exchange for coats and other items. Listings include a 18-inch alligator skin Gladstone bag, stenography and typewriting lessons after hours, complete work in shorthand, a hand printing press, an electric auto, and an exchange proposal for a Remington machine in return for instruction. Also notes furniture and appliance exchanges and a yacht listing.
A long stream of lost items including purses wallets watch keys pocketbooks and other small valuables. Many notices seek return to owners at various addresses in Washington area with rewards offered. Also numerous help wanted ads and clerical positions seeking reliable workers and tradespeople.
A vintage classified page lists multiple job notices including a soprano for a quartet choir, stenographer experienced for a law office, a young woman skilled in shorthand, a typist, a widow assistant in managing, and phrases about general help wanted. The text shows names, times, and addresses in a shorthand OCR form.
A collage of small ads offers furniture sales and services from Baum's Furniture Shop and North 1333, frame buildings for teardown, and carpet weaving. Other entries seek mining stock, oak or walnut rolltop desks, modern office outfits, rugs, and various items. Clearer notices invite furniture buyers, stowage and stoves, a fashion parlor for patterns, and a young lady seeks board and room with budget.
Numerous small ads list used goods and services including Remington typewriters, a rolling desk, office chairs, a printing press, a flat desk, a bicycle, gravel work, a Cadillac, china and furniture pieces, and clothing items. Numerous contact names and locations appear, with prices and viewing notes scattered through the page.
A notice urges honest cheerful effort and invites readers to register for a guild position. It lists Washington Domestic Guild telephone main 1345 for contact and registration.
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