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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1919
Page
6
Numerous job ads across Washington DC offering delivery work for The Washington Post with pay per paper and flexible hours. Also listings for office, shop, and service positions including conductors, pressers, cooks, waitresses, maids, delivery clerks, and stenographers with specific hours, locations, and pay.
Numerous early 20th century recruitment and domestic help ads appear, seeking housemaids cooks waitstaff nannies and clerical assistants. Listings include private families restaurants and department store options with varying hours locations and pay references in Washington DC area.
A busy page lists job seekers by trade and background. Applicants include an accountant with banking knowledge seeking a moderate salary, a young assistant to an executive with office experience, an auditor, a carpenter and a car repairer, a chauffeur, cooks, secretaries, a stenographer, a private family cook, a Filipino cook, a physical director, a stenographer, a painter, a porter, a doorman, and various clerical workers. Contact Box numbers indicate office listings.
Classified pleas show numerous entries seeking colored women for cook, housework, and nanny tasks, plus positions for stenographers, bookkeepers, and laundry work. Offers include day or evening engagements, travel or stay at a private home, with references requested and pay details varying by role.
A fragmented classified notice advertises miscellaneous sales including dictionaries, mahogany bedroom suites, dining room sets, chairs, sewing tables, and other furnishings. Items priced or offered on terms, with several addresses and contact hints. emphasizes cash discounts and quick sale by today.
A cluttered display lists piano players, ukes, phonographs, records, and various household goods for sale. Also offered are typewriters, window shades, cameras, furniture, clothing, farming and garden items, and odd appliances with prices and contact notes throughout.
Auction-style listing of various items for sale including paint, goat items, a house frame, fruit and garden stock, hedge plants, overcoat, drawing pen, furs and sets, and miscellaneous merchandise. Includes contact and location hints such as addresses and apartment references, with some garbled OCR text.
Mixed classified items include requests for furniture and household goods, contact details, and ads for services like painting paper hanging upholstering and auto services. Reads as an old time classifieds page with offerings to buy, sell, hire and trade including pianos autos garages and a Philadelphia Orchestra tickets request.
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