Help Wanted Notice From Anarchic Labor Pool
Fragmentary help wanted ad seeks workers for security and identification tasks. Mentions fines and a Brook street address with unclear details and stray names.
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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1919
Page
5
Fragmentary help wanted ad seeks workers for security and identification tasks. Mentions fines and a Brook street address with unclear details and stray names.
Help wanted notices list female teachers at Grege and Echosi stations, with experience, salaries and evening hours. Other ads seek telephone operators, stenographers, teachers at various colleges, and wait staff. multiple firms invite applications, box numbers, and phone contacts for immediate hires.
Classified listings offering women many job openings including branch store management, waitresses, chambermaids, general office work, cooking, housework, and sewing. Ads urge quick apply at various addresses in Washington area. many entries note experience not required, some specify wages or pay details.
A crowded column shows diverse “situations wanted” notices. Young men seek clerk, stenographer, bookkeeper, or real estate sales roles, many with college or office experience. Others offer housekeeping, nursing, or domestic work. Listings request box numbers for response and reveal urban employment culture and gendered job hopes.
A dense OCR fragment lists various personal service job requests and notices including a male good cook, a private family cook, a chef, a bookkeeper, a financial accountant, a carpenter, a butler or valet, and a hotel or private family positions. It references boxes and addresses, mentions marital status, experience, and references, with scattered names and locations. The text is distorted but preserves the sense of interwar classified help-wanted notices seeking employment or domestic staff.
A mixed listing of sale items including dictionaries from Webster and Encyclopaedia Britannica, plus a large amount of office furniture. The ads mention Richards the Dictionary Man at Jenifer Building, various desks, typewriter stands, chairs, and office equipment. Also advertised are mahogany and oak furniture, chairs, tables, wardrobes, beds, and multiple used piano and phonograph offerings with prices and contact boxes in Washington area locations.
Numerous listings for baby carriages, stoves, dressers, a piano, a typewriter desk, lamps, carpets, and small furniture. Also noted are cabinets, a Go-cart, a brass cabinet, a brass bed, a dresser with mirror, and a kitchen counter. Prices range from modest to hundreds for select items, with contact details and street addresses included.
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