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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1906
Page
27
Old newspaper style directory offering free want ads and paid insertions. Includes agencies, pharmacies, optical courses, and sales agent opportunities. urges readers to place notices and seek employment with commissions and listed addresses across Washington area.
A flood of helping hand ads and job listings appears for women in Washington, detailing positions as companions, housemaids, cooks, dressmakers, laundresses, and general housework. Listings include location clues such as 804 47th Place and 14th Street, with pay offers, training, and basic duties, reflecting era hiring practices and gendered labor expectations.
A dense OCR listing shows numerous classified help wanted ads for domestic workers, sewing and garment roles, maids, nannies, waitresses, stenographers, and office staff. It includes positions in Philadelphia and nearby areas, noting wages, lodging offers, and age or experience requirements, with multiple women sought for at home production and fashion work.
Classified ad style miscellany lists readers seeking secondhand furniture rugs garments and household goods while agencies seek servants cooks and hotel help. Prolific listings mention carpentry sewing patterns bicycles cameras and wheelchairs along with job notices for cooks waiters and domestic workers in Washington within 12th to 17th streets.
A long classified listing seeks competent men and women for hotel and private family work. Positions include cooks, chambermaids, waitresses, housekeepers, nurses, companions, drivers, and yard staff with varied wages from $10 to $90 per month. Many ads require white or colored workers, several specify German or American backgrounds, and multiple posts urge quick applications at addresses along 17th and 4th to 27th streets northwest. The Washington Domestic Guild promotes staffing services and hotel bookings.
Classified ad list with secondhand items including pianos, typewriters, furniture, appliances, and odds and ends. Items include upright pianos, organs, sewing machines, dining tables, chairs, dressers, beds, stoves, and sporting goods offered at bargain prices. Local contact and office box references appear throughout.
A garbled 19th century style classified notice seeks positions and listings for items and services. It mentions a model 4 teleprinter, various addresses in North Carolina and Washington DC, prices, and conditions, but content is severely unclear and interspersed with nonstandard text. The fragment suggests a mix of buy sell or advertisement intents with vague terms and broken contact details.
Fragmented classified list offers soft typewriter, canoe, graphophone, camera, chandeliers, crystal parlor dialog room, piano exchange, and a French doctor travel offer. Items described with condition hints and rough locations.
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