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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1907
Page
8
The notice explains free advertising in small columns for wanted helps, situations, rent rooms, lost and found. Limit of one ad per day per individual. If an ad is not satisfied promptly, additional insertions are offered. The paper aims to avoid burdening advertisers.
The Post outlines how readers may submit advertisements only through visuals and at designated pharmacies. It lists multiple agency locations in Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Anacostia, and nearby spots with delivery options for five cents per ad and notes hours and scheduling constraints.
Multiple classified notices seek reliable individuals for confidential interviews, real estate prospecting, and office tasks. Offers include salary, commission, and potential permanent positions, with contact details and specific hours for call or appointment at BGX 262 City ATs, Munsey Bidg. Box Sul and related listings for stenographers, office assistants, and summer courses at government exam prep schools.
Help wanted ads list male openings for delivery, machine repair, canvassing, clerical work, and sales. Positions mention box responses, street addresses, and hourly or daily pay arrangements. Several listings request experience in photography, elevator work, or wholesale trade.
Diverse job ads appear from sales to domestic work with ages 14 and up sought for various roles. Listings include sales clerks, waitstaff, cooks, cleaners, apprentices, and drivers, with locations around Washington DC and surrounding areas. Wages range from modest to steady, with references and cycling required for some positions.
Numerous help wanted ads appear for nurses, maids, waitresses, seamstresses, and saleswomen in Washington. Listings include cooks, chambermaids, laundresses, millinery students, and a housekeeper for a four-room home, with wages and immediate interviews at 730 13th St and other local employers.
A collage of exchange notices and want ads lists pensions clerks and offices trade offs. Items include a 1200 clerks position in pensions with good health and congenial surroundings, piano for boarding, a dog for a gun or typewriter, a gold watch for a gasoline launch, a ring for cash or goods, and various household and office items Exchange entries show readers seeking to trade goods for furniture musical instruments and labor with box references for responses.
A dense row of classified personals offers palmistry readings from Mr Daoud and fortune telling plus numerous cash-for-clothes buyers. Advertisers include Joan E Co and J Tarshes seeking discarded garments, while Marcus Notes and Bernstein post notes offering to buy used clothing for high prices.
The fragment shows multiple ads for birds and pets. Lee's Bird Store advertises canaries parrots and other birds at 1801 5th St NW. Schmid's Bird Store lists canaries parrots dogs cats rabbits guinea pigs pigs and goldfish. A for sale notice offers a Thoroughbred male Chihuahua puppy three months old at 1205 North Street.
A long list of lost and found notices and rewards for items including a pearl scarf, wire cutters, a watch and fob, cash and tickets, a dog, a ladies umbrella, a pocketbook with $27, eyeglasses, a pearl brooch, a collie dog, and a variety of small items. The notices request return to various addresses across Washington DC areas with rewards offered. Several items reference specific streets, venues, and contact names.
For sale items include pianos from Knabe Steinway and Sohmer plus upright models, cabinet pianos, and a piano player. Also offered are baby carriages, dining tables, beds, bureaus, sofas, a violin, a gas range, a typewriter, photographic supplies, a racing catboat, bicycles, safe, and various small appliances. Addresses and contact notes appear for pickup and delivery, with prices ranging from modest to premium.
A fragmented collection of classified notices seeks writers, desk space, and equipment. Listings request stories for magazines, a cheap press desk, typewriters, cash registers, pianos, and old furniture, plus requests for experienced domestics, drivers, and skilled tradespeople.
A scanned classifieds page shows numerous help wanted notices for clerical and domestic work, including male and female roles. Listings include office clerks, stenographers, drivers, janitors, and government clerks, as well as housekeepers, chambermaids, cooks, caretakers, and companions with varied experience, references, and wage expectations. Many ads specify mailing boxes or addresses in the office.
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