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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1907
Page
29
An old newspaper note offers free advertising for miscellaneous notices including help situations rooms lost and found and other small ads. It invites repeated insertions to secure results and asks advertisers to use space without feeling they are imposing on the paper.
The Post explains how to send letters and place ads with initials, deadlines, and delivery routes. It lists agency locations in Northwest Northeast Southeast and Anacostia and notes fees for ad delivery to homes.
Numerous small ads call for help with drafts, dramatic performances, stenography, office assistants, and various trades. Listings include actors and singers for a charity show, a clerk for a real estate office, barbers, messengers, drivers, and shop workers seeking steady pay, short or long term roles, and opportunities to learn.
A dense page of help wanted and household notices lists numerous positions and requests. Listings include houseboy, experienced waste man, intelligent young man with literary tastes, managers for cafe and soda department, paperhanger, lecture speaker, porter, drug store clerk, shoemakers, stenographer, typewriter operator, clerks, shipping clerk, clerks for office work, salesmen for shoes clothing and furnishings, drivers, waiters, and colored porters. Many box references for responses and a few local Virginia postings, highlighting a bustling midcentury urban job market.
A crowded listing offers positions for apprentice dressmaker models and many domestic roles. Opportunities include chambermaids cooks waitresses dressmakers and general housework with varying wages locations and conditions across Washington and Virginia.
A long column of classified help wanted ads from Washington lists positions for general housework by White and colored women, including cooks, maids, nannies, laundresses, and kitchen aides. Many postings specify no washing, country or city work, references required, and post office box addresses or local guilds as application contacts.
Miscellaneous for sale items include autographs with prominent names, piano certificates offered at discounted prices, a postal typewriter, tools, a diamond ring, a green suit, a sewing machine, a horse, furniture, pool tables, and a piano certificate. Listings provide prices and contact details such as addresses in Washington areas and hotel postings. Names include Andrew Johnson, Jefferson Davis, Stephen A. Douglas, Harmiston Fish, and others.
Miscellaneous for sale offers a wide mix of piano certificates and instruments from Steinway Baby Grands to uprights, parlour stoves, a Weebco piano, violins, and audio items. Many listings include certificates, cash offers, and contact box references, with prices and terms scattered across an old classified page.
Classified style ad batch listing cheap items for sale and certificates including coasters, pianos, and furniture. Entries mention addresses such as 1038 V st nw and 17 Grant plane, boards, barrels, and tailored pieces like a lounge, mantels, and an enamel bed. Some items include certificates worth sums and commission library table.
Classified notes offer second hand piano, clarinet, gas engine, desk, safe, and various tools for sale or trade. Items include a sharp hatchet, plane, incuba tor with egg capacity, roll top desk, and a marine engine. Also listed are room rental, tutoring, and a lady seeking writing work at home.
Advertisements offer to pay high cash for men's worn clothing shoes hats and ladies or children's wear by postal inquiry. Multiple listings push postal calls, phone numbers, and shop names for buying clothing and one-off items. Also notes palm readers, manicures, and other classifieds in a bustling Washington area ad page.
A dense classified excerpt lists numerous positions in Washington for Dom estic Guild listings. Mentions cook chefs butlers chauffeurs maids housemen janitors drivers valets chambermaids and more with varied wages and notes about references and appearances. Also notes addresses for applications and a Deanwood DC contact.
Classified notices seek domestic workers including cooks chambermaids maids and nurses of all colors for summer at Jamestown and other locations. Listings offer several positions with wages good rooms and references and solicit responses via box numbers and addresses in the city. Various lost items including pocketbooks, glasses and a bracelet are also advertised with rewards for returns to local contacts.
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