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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1907
Page
24
Free column urges readers to place simple up to fifteen word ads for wants and needs with strict day limits. It lists agencies and stores across Northwest to deliver notices, warns against post office addressed to initials, and notes deadlines and payment for service.
Classified notices list vacancies for a deliverer and collector with a $10 cash deposit, a capable farmer and wife, a general farmer with 180 acres near Washington, actors for Gilbert and Sullivan performances, designers and vocal talents, drawing work, grammar lessons, stenographers and typists training, and young writers for magazines. Applications directed to box numbers and offices.
A dense early ad page seeks multiple male workers including band members, advertising solicitors, painters, barbers, shop boys, clerks, a bookkeeper, a courier, a jewelry helper, drugstore helper, and elevator staff. Listings show locations around Washington DC, with boxes and office references, varying wages and experience requirements. Names include J Jones Summerville and The American Realty Co. plus The Regent Newsstand, Harvard Pharmacy, Kellog Big, and Ebbitt House hotel.
A dense page of classified want ads seeks workers of all kinds from janitors and porters to printers and printers' helpers, with many positions for cooks, housemaids, nurses, clerks, stenographers, salesmen, and wage earners. Listings include box replies, street addresses, and requirements for city and suburban employment.
Classified notices from a Washington page list numerous help wanted advertisements for cooks, maids, chambermaids, nurses, and general houseworkers at various addresses in the city. Also includes lost-and-found items such as pocketbooks, watches, a terrier, jewelry, and other personal effects with contact details and rewards. The density favors domestic labor roles and assorted lost items in the same column.
A chaotic classified list offers pianos uprights including Steinway and Weber, old and new machines, a range, tables, bookcases, desks, furniture, and various household items. Also posted are clothing, coats, dresses, carpets, wall paper, and small hardware items. Several ads note delivery, prices, and contact points in the city area.
Mixed classified notices seek cheap used office furniture ink, typewriter boxes, piano purchase rental, various tools, skins, and machinery. Offers for secondhand desk, chair, books, incubator, engine, and printing plant with box responses and pay cash. Also listings for real estate, business opportunities, and pawn tickets for diamonds with contact boxes in this office.
Furniture for sale includes a complete DAX dining room suite, three Apple bedroom sets in good as new condition, a folding kitchen cabinet, oak dresser, black walnut parlor couch, and a Weaveon wire cot. Also a Mission library table and chairs, metal bed with springs and felt mattress. Located at flats 10, 1623 Swoon et ne and 2311A N st aw.
Old newspaper ad shows wall paper deals with价格 1.50 per room and lower painting prices. Listings include vendors Nolte GWT 11th NW and Chas A Carlisle 335th St and 41 Tet NW. Phone numbers and brief product mentions indicate automotive and furnishing items as well.
A dense string of job ads seeks help including butler chef chauffeur stenographer clerk houseman porter bartender cook chambermaid and more. Listings name positions, wage ranges, and apply addresses notably Washington Domestic Guild 730 13th st and 720 13th st with variations for English French Dutch German and colored applicants and a mix of private and family posts across Washington. Local postings invite stacks of applicants with varied experience and references.
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