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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1907
Page
35
Free advertising space offered for acceptable notices in small columns with a limit of one ad per individual per day. Repeated insertions welcome if not overburdening the column, inviting readers to use the free section without burden.
The notice outlines advertising submission rules for The Washington Post, directing readers to place want ads via offices or mail and listing agency locations in Northwest Northeast Southeast and Anacostia with street addresses and cross streets for ad delivery. It specifies handling initials, cutoff times, and mail options.
A collage of classified ads seeks male workers and apprentices in trades. Listings include learning the fur nishings business living with parents, advertising solicitors for the Jamestown Exposition, hustlers for a daily paper, a farmer near Washington, a bookbinder apprentice, a furniture and carpet salesman, a guarder barber and several odd job roles. Various wages and location notes across Washington area.
Multiple listings for male and female help including clerks, cooks, porters, drivers, laborers, and domestic staff. Positions detail requirements, wages, locations around Washington area, and box ad responses. Includes clerks with stenography, night watchmen, press feeders, sales agents, and various trades.
A long list of help wanted ads from the Washington Domestic Guild seeks colored cooks, laundresses, maids, nurses, dressmakers, and general houseworkers. Positions offer varied wages from 18 to 25 dollars weekly, nights required for some, and many reside at 730 to 730 15th Street or 10 16th Street locations with specifics on duties and hours.
A collection of classified ads seeking female help in Washington and surrounding areas. Listings include cooks, waitresses, chambermaids, housekeepers, cooks with good references, and young women for demonstrations and clerical tasks. Several ads request white or settled women, with varying wages and hours, and some invite references and calls.
A crowded compact classified page offers Palm reader ads and buyouts for used clothes and shoes. It lists several practitioners and shops with phone numbers, plus offers to purchase castoffs at high cash prices. Public notices mix in real estate and job hunting lines.
A long string of lost and found items appears, including jewelry watches pocketbooks purses keys and documents. Sightings mention street corners near Pa ave 10th and 19th streets nw and multiple rewards offered by various contact addresses and offices.
Scattered classified notes offer cheap pianos and furniture. Includes upright and baby grand pianos, long list of household goods, a coal range, sofa, chairs, a baby carriage, carpets, window shades, matting, a wooden foot pump, and an Edison exhibition moving picture device. Also mentions costumes, an Indian Canton outfit, a Mullins skiff, and film titles for sale. Purchases via local addresses and BOX 750 enquiries.
A dense mixed classified page fragment lists wants and offers from a Washington office. Entries include writers for stories, a sample typewriter, a Remington shotrun price box, cheap second hand autos, steel fishing rods, a Burroughs adding machine, a cylinder press, furniture like a brass bedstead and a dresser, a large boys bicycle, clothing, a vacant room with board, and requests for lawn rollers and printing presses. Several boxes and office locations are noted, with prices and conditions. The text also mentions a 350 prize for a short story and pawn ticket purchases for diamonds and jewelry.
Classified fragment lists a baritone soloist for NcAGE events, a piano upright for rent for a month at 1002 K Street NW, and a cab stand reference at Arlington Drug Store. Mentions Box 65 and phone numbers Main 772 or 6232.
A mass meeting at the Masonic Temple Hall near 3rd and Front on Thursday March 21 at 7 80 p m calls for united action to prevent interference with mounted heroes on public highways by Washington Humane Society agents. Address messages to AB. TRUNDLE, 1st.
Classified list shows a young man 22 seeking work in private families stores or as an architectural draughtsman, bookkeeper, cashier, or porter. Numerous entries mix positions from bar porter to chauffeur to cook and janitor with varied references, addresses, and box numbers indicating a broad, eclectic job-seeking classifieds page.
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