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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1906
Page
13
An old notice explains free want ads in the Post columns with limits and deadlines. Advertisers may place small, unpaid ads up to fifteen words, one per advertiser per day, via local drugstore agencies or mail to The Washington Post.
Classified notices show boarding offers at a city area and a Virginia farm seeking a married white couple for full work, with wages and board. Also ads offer shorthand and typewriting courses and a domestic servant guild promising better help with registered workers.
Readable ads seek nurses, chambermaids, cooks, waitresses, and houseworkers. Listings include white and colored women, age ranges, live-in options, and special notes on training, wages, and experience. The Washington Domestic Guild promotes bookings for hotel and boarding-house staff with contact at 604 17th Street NW, two doors above H Street, Main 1345.
Classified ad fusion from a Washington post listing numerous domestic staff positions. It calls for white or colored workers including butlers maids cooks chambermaids waitresses and housekeepers with strong references and night duties. Also features a hiring push for a German speaking governess and a nurse pool with varying wages and shifts.
Classified ad seeks able men for hotel and private family work in Washington. Listings include belman, waiter, cook, chauffeur, coachman, janitor, porter, elevator man, watchman, engineer, gardener, clerk, stenographer, and more. Apply at 804 17th St NW with references. many positions specify colored or American applicants and emphasize neat appearance and experience.
A jumble of miscellaneous classifieds advertising custom sets and furniture items. Listings include household goods, furniture shop offerings, used carpets and woven fabrics, sewing machines, and exchanges. Contact details and partial addresses are provided for buyers and sellers.
Utility man by experienced, capable of general work about home and grounds. Apply 206 West. Valet clerk by neat intelligent young American: good rein Apply 37th and Wa iter. Waiter by thoroughly experienced young German: hotel position. Apply 804 17th. Watchman by experienced American: role and duties. Apply 98th and et. Valet or butler by well educated and refined young American, good refs. Apply 98th. Watchman by young American, experienced, good refs. Apply 304TH et mw. Watchman capable young American, watchman by young American, good refs. Apply 347th st mw. Watchman capable white man, good ref. Apply 27th rt mw.
Hiring notice from the Washington Domestic Guild listing diverse positions for women including companions, nurses, housekeepers, cooks, maids, laundresses, and stenographers. Multiple American and colored applicants sought with references, in various Washington locations 804 17th Street and surrounding addresses.
A collage of classified ads offering many used items. Pianos and uprights including Knabe and Weber varieties, for cash or easy terms. jewelry such as solitaire diamonds. furniture like desks sideboards and tables. household goods including washstands stoves and cookers. pets and sewing machines. Also offers loans on gold and jewelry.
Notice from the Washington Domestic Guild at 906 17th St NW inviting members to register for positions. The terse call emphasizes honest effort and service to members, with contact via Main 1345.
A jumble of tiny ads offers piano lessons near Franklin, a cash trade for a bicycle, a large well made trunk, office furniture and typewriters, a broken Billy Goat for driving, a Rex room for occasional use near the Patent Office, a Steerofticon item for rent or buy, and various names and addresses. Read as a snapshot of daily trading and personal notices.
For sale autos including a Cadillac with tonneau in great order owner leaving for Europe selling at half price. Inquire Mr. Ash at Pope Manufacturing Co. 817 14th St. Ea. Also Cadillac touring car claim to be best and priced $480 under dealer, two machines must sell. Ronth Stone 142 NY Ave Ed. Almost new CH P 3 7TUIN touring car with top caps at 1327 Girard St Mr. Pleasant a UF.
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