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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1907
Page
11
Free advertising space offered for various notices including wanted help situations for rent rooms and found items. Advertisers may submit a single free ad per day, with guidance to avoid clutter and ensure legitimate postings.
The Post notes that want ads should be sent to officials or via post office boxes by 9 PM on weekdays and 8 PM Saturday. It lists agency locations in Northwest Northeast Southeast Southwest and Anacostia with delivery for a 5 cent fee.
Advertisement seeking agents to sell a patented Woll Brean Co household specialty. Claims a quick fortune and urine-related product with a promise of relief, listing Pittsburgh PA and Washington DC addresses for the advertisers.
Classifieds show a flood of job offers and requests for workers across many trades. Listings include janitors, cooks, models, musically inclined talents, farm labor, clerical help, and domestic staff. Several ads offer positions with high earnings potential, commissions, or training opportunities, reflecting a bustling urban labor market.
Classified style listings show multiple help wanted positions including male helpers, barbers, a bookkeeper, a wagon blacksmith, and a boy needed for trades. Positions specify male applicants, white or colored, with terms like first class barber, steady weekly pay, and guaranteed wages. Some ads note experience requirements, shift timing, and addresses in Washington area.
A dense Washington Post style classifieds page listing clerical, sales, and domestic positions. Advertisements call for solicitors, stenographers, traveling salesmen, pressers, painters, and numerous domestic workers including cooks, chambermaids, laundresses, governesses, waitresses, and general houseworkers. Wages and shifts vary, with many boxes for applications.
A dense classified page offers a chaotic mix of job ads and items for sale. Entries span female help wanted, nurses, and domestic roles alongside furniture, pianos, launch boats, bikes, and even a few livestock listings. Names and box numbers anchor the scattered notices.
A cluttered classified page lists KNABE pianos in mahogany and upright models at 176 to 340 dollars, plus other piano and musical items, a diamond ring offered for quick sale, steam foundry machinery for sale, used household items, ranges, typewriters, cameras, baby carriages, and miscellaneous sale notices.
A collage of classifieds lists exchanges for goods and services including a diamond ring for food or a bicycle, a cottage, music lessons, and a piano. also numerous LOST notices for items from wallets to a white Maltese terrier, a gold watch, keys, and clothing with locations, dates, and returns requested. The page reads like a busy urban classifieds page with many box numbers, addresses, and terse reward statements.
Classified notices from a historical page show multiple situations wanted ads. Entries include a colored man and wife seeking private tacrily work, a white couple for summer caretaking, a titled butler or valet with laundress, a cook and janitor for private households, and a couple seeking work together. Contacts list BOX 121, Lith street, 2028 Both Street, and Mrs Conn. Also an ad for a kidney tonic product.
Classified list of job wants from a young man and several colored applicants. Positions sought include porter driver chauffeur clerk bookkeeper elevator man butler houseworker and other domestic or skilled labor. Offers safe references, local box numbers, and indicates willingness to relocate for summer or evenings.
Classified help wanted ads feature numerous male applicants seeking roles as second man, valet, stenographer, watchman, and various domestic positions. Listings include experiences in steamship and cafe service, language skills, and references, with many applying to Washington Domestic Guild and related offices.
A chaotic page of personals and palmistry notices features Orieolal palmist Daoud offering hand readings at 1622 Q and a Broadway of ads. It includes shoe buyers seeking discarded footwear, body tonics, manicuring services, scientific massage, and cash-for-clothes signs from Marcus Notes and S Bernstein among others.
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