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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1907
Page
21
Advertising policy announces free insertions for wanted help, rooms for rent, lost and found notices and more. It invites advertisers to submit and reassures they are not imposing. It emphasizes willingness to run multiple insertions and to accommodate repeated inquiries.
Public notice details where to place want ads in The Washington Post. It lists agency locations in Northwest Northeast Southeast and Anacostia with pharmacy addresses and times, noting initials and care-of guidance, with deadlines for ads after hours.
Several local employers seek experienced salespeople for white goods millinery and men’s clothing plus openings for a floor manager in a children’s department. Varied positions include clerical, artistic drawing, stenography, and shop work with firms like John Wedderburn Co and The American Realty Co. Opportunities listed in retail, hotel, and factory settings, with emphasis on reliability, experience, and onward advancement.
Numerous classified notices seek men and boys for night work, delivery, and shop duties, plus cooks, maids, and general housework. Positions include warehouse helpers, porters, clerks, and a range of colored and white applicants. Box notices request responses for various roles in Washington area businesses and services.
A dense early 20th century recruitment page listing numerous help wanted notices for domestic workers. Positions include light housework, real estate office help, a variety of maids and housekeepers, cooks, laundresses, nannies, and substitutive roles in private homes and offices. Also includes trade apprenticeships and a few lost and found notices. Names of offices and addresses appear throughout for applications.
Numerous classified items offered: complete parlor suites in white enamel and oak, bedroom sets, dining room pieces, and furniture accessories. Pianos, violins, certificates, rugs, and various misc. items advertised for quick sale at significant discounts. Buyers contact box numbers or addresses around 14th to 22nd streets NW and surrounding area.
Miscellaneous for sale items include used pianos from brands like Chickering Steinway and Hal lett Davis with certificates and financing options. Also offered are sewing machines, dining room suites, bed room sets, rocking chairs, bookcases, iron beds, a Commodore Clarinet and various hardware items, bicycles, typewriters, and a range of other household and shop goods with prices and contact box numbers.
A jumble of personal ads seeking pupils, plant care, piano purchase, and various goods. Listings include water spaniel pups, bridle horses, ball bearing skates, bicycles, a water spaniel, a rollable piano, typewriters, chairs, desks, a library table, a cannon of Virginia law books, a mission leather cushion, and many other secondhand items with box numbers and contact notes.
Classified ads show a range of positions in private homes. Many entries request chauffeurs maids cooks butlers housemen and replacements with references. Washington Domestic Guild listings include chauffeurs cooks nurses chambermaids and companions seeking work with families, doctors and businesses in Washington area.
West End Storage Company advertises careful handling of Hourehola goods with rates for carriages plaster and other items. It lists office at 1321 F Street NW and phone Mala 1168, promising first month storage free on presentation, and mentions storage of furniture and pianos at Weschler's on Pa Ave. NW with telephone number 1283.
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