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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1907
Page
30
The Post explains how the public may warn and request wares via mail and urges readers to use initials carefully. It lists local agencies delivering want ads for a fee and notes hours for submissions. Addresses include pharmacies and shops around 7th Street, Vermont Ave, Florida Ave, and nearby streets.
Mixed help wanted ads show numerous clerical, retail, and domestic positions. Listings seek male and female applicants from teens to mature adults for cooks, maids, porters, stenographers, shop clerks, real estate workers, and colored and white workers with various experience levels in private homes, offices, and stores across Washington area.
Classified ads seek female applicants for fitters stenographers and office assistants at multiple addresses. Jobs include waitresses white and colored, chambermaids, cooks laundresses and domestic guild posts with varied hours and wages. Listings emphasize experience and references with several employers offering apartments or salaries.
Multiple listings from a Washington DC marketplace feature used pianos including a Knabe baby grand and upright models, Steinway and Weber items, plus other sale items like sewing machines, furniture, a guided advertisement mix. The ad highlights affordable prices, delivery terms, and a wide array of household goods and pets. It lists contact points and locations around NW and nearby streets with various items such as dogs, plants, coats, chests, and a moving picture machine.
A mass of lost notices lists jewelry pins, bracelets, rings, a white cat, a gold watch, a turquoise ring, a gold spectacles set, wallets, keys, and various items missing around downtown streets between 11th and 16th streets and near U Street and the Capitol area. Rewards offered to locate owners include returns to address entries such as 1427 Q NW, 4962 Sth St MW, and other local addresses. notices request contact through specific locations and dates, with several posts dated midweek and over a weekend.
A dense, fragmentary classifieds page listing second hand goods and employment wants. Items include a polaripe code reference, bicycles, upright pianos, typewriters, a collection of tools, furniture, and various household and business goods. Numerous help-wanted notices seek carpenters, chauffeurs, chauffeurs, domestics, sales, and skilled trades, with many requests for cash offers and prompt responses.
Public exchange requests for language practice, a German matron seeking to swap languages, and assorted sale items dominate a dense 1920s style classifieds page. Offerings include a nearly new .22 rifle, a dress coat and vest, complete dining room sets, beds and furniture, and a mission library table, with box mail responses and local address hints.
A telephone classified style column lists situations wanted and chambermaid or domestic help ads. Entries include female job seekers seeking stitching, typewriting, or other work and multiple chambermaid, waitress, or domestic helper postings with brief references and addresses around Washington, including colored and white applicants and varying wages.
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