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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1905
Page
11
Washington Post classified listing shows agencies at multiple drugstores for accepting ads, plus various helper and sales positions. Includes openings for holiday books agents, barbers, cooks, ranch workers, typewriters pupils, and sales reps, with contact details and locations across Washington area.
Classified ads invite applicants across multiple roles at Washington area addresses. Listings include farmhand for winter care near Collington Maryland, a tailor and various tradesmen, a first class finisher for N Stern Co, fireman with engineer's license, furniture movers, general housework, grocery and meat shop staff, waiters, a stenographer instructor, jewelry sales, telegraphy students, real estate, and several clerical and labor positions with contact boxes and local office references.
Classified ads describe positions including first class barber, a boy with bicycle, paper hangers, and a range of domestic roles. Listings show employers in Baltimore and New York seeking sober, reliable workers, including clerks, chambermaids, cooks, dressmakers, and general housework staff, with pay offers and location details. Titles mention cleaning, printing, and publishing houses seeking nonunion pressmen and compositors, plus shop and yard labor opportunities.
Numerous listings seek reliable white or colored women and girls for general housework in private homes and small families. Positions require references, with wages varying. some specify no washing, some include cooking and ironing, and several note nights for live-in or stay nights. Locations include 18th St NW 1709 Q St NW and others across DC and nearby sectors. Many ads request apply by specific dates or times and emphasize good refs and neat appearance.
Varied advertisements list used goods and services including incubator, sewing machines, clothing, furniture, a chesterfield, a plain mirror, a walnut wardrobe, a pool table, a gas stove, a phonograph, records, and bicycles. Also included are baby carriages, hat coats, a mandolin, and household items for sale by private sellers around a city area, with several addresses and contact references.
A dense jumble of classified notices lists items for sale and exchange including a M5 bicycle wheel, carpet pieces, a folding bed, a sewing machine, a motorbike, a Jenny Lind table, a mimeograph, a Saratoga train, a gas burner, a piano, a desk, a go cart, a diamond ring, a gold pin, a lost badge, several lost items like waists and a handbag, with owners offering cash, exchanges, or rewards across addresses on 7th Street NW to Georgetown area, reflecting varied consumer wants and missing property cases.
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