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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1905
Page
12
A flood of short notices from Washington area patrons seeks services and work. Advertisements include palm reading, fortune telling, manicure and chiropody, detective agency, and employment offers. Names, addresses, and phone hints appear alongside requests for cash offers for clothing and jobs in households and hotels.
A dense classified listing offers numerous job requests from a broad group of colored workers. Positions include drivers, janitors, cooks, coachmen, messengers, and general laborers, with ages and references noted. Local addresses and box numbers indicate offers to employers and private families seeking dependable help.
An assortment of help wanted notices seeks assistants and caretakers including refined young women for offices and doctors, a reliable white bookkeeper, chambermaids and waitresses in private homes and hotels, colored chambermaids, cooks, and clerical helpers. Listings specify daytime care, cleaning, sewing, and light office tasks with various addresses and contact initials.
Dense 1920s style classified rows offer cook, maid, dressmaker, copyist, and general housework positions. Entries specify race as colored, ages, and locations such as Navy Place, 15th Street NW, Sherman Avenue, and 1642 P Street. Roles include cook by white or colored families, first class cook, dressmaker, and day labor. Some mention references requirement and wages.
Classified notices offering general housework and related services by colored women and others. Posts include positions for housework in private homes, laundresses, governesses, and elderly or child care, with various locations such as 603 A Street, 819 Brown's Court, Navy Place, and separate ads for day or morning work, morning and evening cleaning, and hotel or private family duties.
A dense list of laundress classified notices seeks work from colored women. Entries offer at home or out washing, ironing, and light housework with varied locations across Gordon Avenue Admiral addresses, Navy Place, Douglass Court, and other city streets, emphasizing first class, reliable, and good references, some offering weeklies or day rates.
A dense OCR of classified help-wanted notices seeks colored women to wash and iron at home or take work by day. Repeated entries reference laundress by colored woman, reliable, first-class washing, prices reasonable, various addresses in Washington D C neighborhoods.
Classified advertising for Sundays issue of The Post must be left in the office by 2 PM this afternoon for proper classification.
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