Free Advertising Rules and Want Ads Guidance
Free columns offer limited unaffiliated ads to aid readers while paid business notices require payment. It lists receipt rules, directions to address initials, posting deadlines, and pharmacy drop points for Washington Post want ads with locations and agent names. A resulting vacancy for a sales position in Baltimore is noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oppenheimer
Ninth St
Bureatin, &Co
Ewing
Lincoln
Washington
Springfield
25Th St Nw
Brunswick-Baike
Wanted help and kinds of jobs advertised in brief
Classified style notices advertise cooks, maids, chambermaids, butlers, a colored helper, wages and calls for stenographers, shorthand and typewriting courses, telegraphy schools, light housekeeping, meat cutters, salesmen, and plumbing schools. Multiple employers seek workers with varying pay, duties, and locations, plus free catalog offers and guaranteed positions after training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lars
America
Ohio
Buffalo
San Francisco
Wall
Wen
Fem Gaye Onif
Joyne Drosco Plumbing Schools
New Pasa Inet
Soula, Mo
Help Wanted Classified Notices in 1929 DC Paper
Various job ads and domestic help listings from a 1920s Washington DC newspaper. Positions include office staff, watchman, plumber, porter, printing office worker, shipping clerk, shoemaker, upholsterer, seamstress, chambermaids, cooks, general houseworkers, and other daily labor roles. Many postings specify age, race, location, hours, and pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arel
Herrick
Coleen Blas
Paton
New Sore House
Dress Carleton
Ellis
Wail Street
New
Fulton R. Gordon
Colombe
Porter
L St
Sth
Saldsman
Sis
W. M. Baldhaston
Palais Royal
Aotore
Shosi
Boies
Wien
AM CO
Saan
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Bankers
WARE
News CO
Atd-R Aors
Modley
Woodward & Lothrop
Help Wanted Advent of Domestic Labor in Brooklyn
Classified fragment shows multiple job ads from a Brooklyn area paper seeking women for laundry and housework, nurses, dressmakers, waitresses, stenographers and office helpers. Entries list pay ranges, locations like 221 Boston NW and 1337 Broadway NW, with a mix of whites and colored workers and schooling offerings. The ad cluster also promotes money to loan and horse and auto services, reflecting a mixed classified page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wils Riss
Prom
Livingston
New York
Taka & Ation
10Th St
Mra. J. W. W
H St. Nw
J. H
Alao General Office
Henrietta Fiata
Wil’ Se
Thureda
Eris Bet
Orlais
Masc. Ave
Lloyd's Carp
Wattriess
Henning
Iiberat
Es Cee
Portland
Oreg
Ma Fh
BOK
Iola
Sierra Madres
Enterprise
P. O
N. O P
Norfolk
MIT
Waimey
Pold
Diet
Santamontie
Worik
Ae Gress Lands
N. J. Ave
Boston
Brandy Bratton
B.D
H. Jones
Brightwood Ave
Sleo
Jong State
Eien & Bulst
Welch
Young Sear
Orhan
Erion
H.C. F
Laprobhs
Es Dreag
Leman
Exchange ads mix of items and trades in early classifieds
A jumble of trades and exchanges appears listing coal cots, bicycles, watches, typewriters, pianos, furniture, trunks, safes, carpets, beds, and clothing. Many items are paired with secondhand requests for different goods or price differences, including a panoply of household, musical, and hardware items.
Exchange notes list household items and ads
A collage of barter offers and want ads. Items include a light oak bedstead, different bedframes, a diamond ring pawn ticket, appliances like a sewing machine and gas range, a piano, a safe, and various furniture trades. Several entries seek exchanges for bookshelves, bookcases, or china closets, with prices or differences noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bectaress
Ae Ores Safe
Differance Ag
Butorer
Ne & Brayman
Fran ‘CaprinicaTs
Phiefer's
Columbia
Sombia
Hila
Smyrna
25Th
St. Nw
Pat Seer
Bird's Hye
8Th St
Prairid Stato
China
Ae Bator
En Columbia
St. Bw
Judge Urrey
Bunstead
Carrall St. Se
Garfield Ave
Garfield St
Gertinica Sanders & Stayman Co
H St
Larga
18Th St
Loth
Tanttor
Janttor
Navarre
Am Alor West
11Th St. Nw
HK St. Rte
Swiel
2D St
Morris
Lost and Found Notices From The Post Classifieds
A collage of lost and found notices lists items including a white poodle with no collar a black and tan hound dog a gold locket a blue diamond pin and a money order. Rewards are offered for returns and notices reference several DC area addresses including Riggs House and The Post building with dates in November and early December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jose
Willard
Ist
North Cat
St. Nw
H. Brown
Avenel
Spruce St. Nw
Obar B. & O
Dorchester
Bladensburg Road
Pocketegor
Hi ‘Han
11Th St
Ston Way
13Th
Valesta
Cincinmat
Howard
Belpre
A. D. Addison
Kappa Alpha
U_ st. nw
Sth
Emerson St. Ne
Isth
Ies Rd
RVG
CATS
Omar
T. T
APPLE
Col
Woodward & Lothrop's
Paleis Royal
Ace
Barclay
Noid-Dén
Also Mentioned on This Page
Washington Post
Nwt
Roe
Albany
King's Pharmacy
Vermont Ave
Astoria
J. Walt da
Ave. Ross
Fla
Mendota
20Th St
Kalorama
Chafbourne
Columbia Road
Whiteside & Walton
Tayloe
Opongeire
Donnell’s
Garges Pharmacy
Corcoran
Stafford’s
Fuhrman’s Pharmacy
8Th
E. Cap
FP Weller
Richardson
Mt Bolton
Gorsuch Ave
Taylor
Baltimore
Waltrest Lauondress
Mijas Cleid
Cath
Roy
Thacher
Parning Dictation Club
SUL Corcoran Hig
Adene Willams
Harber
Anteed
D Avery
Tedrass
St. Sw
Hart, Ou
Speier
Burgh & Bro
Bysheulman
Avtler
Houseman
Butler
Conn
GILL
Pa Ave
Dirlighton
STORF
Driand
Kun Sophy
Porco
Urarn
Rox Hall
Perdi
HibHie
M. F
Ith
Accinnati St
Y. Ave
Vt Ave
Lanier
Adama Mit Road
Cambridge
Farragut
Adams
U St. Nw
Fiat
Roland
St. Ne
K. Cap
Sapare
Peter
Kenesaw
Halmead Ave
Ontario
Mass
W. M Tucker
Bie
Young
Kate
Columbia Tongs S
Harrison Realty
Red City
Robert Beadle
F Street
Colimbia
Walter H. AC
Bundlng Association
C. A. Bak Metzerott
Beesort
Jas
N.Y
Moore & Hill, Inc
14Th St. Nw
Joan
Frank Z Rawlings
Arlington Fire Insurance Company
District OF Columbia
Maryland
Real
Bradley Company, Inc
Sea St
Omy
D.C
WM. H. Saunders
Tyler & Rutherford Hpcorporatedy
D. C
Stone & Fairfax
Joseph Cahn
D Sts
Wreet End
Ifth St
Ferneyhough
Searles
9Th St
Ith St
Iith and
Eats
Water St
Georgetown
American
CB CO
Washington Riding School
Tird Works
Teraphone
Mt Az
THE
Sunday Post
Ogre OB
Apharma
R. RR
Tauck
Riverdale
ES Windsor Folding Bhd
Stires
Kessler
Colorado
St. Iw
Gatpet Lange
L. Gilbert
the Post
Post
Del
Ava
GROEN
Adaress
New Jersey
Adiresa W. F. T
Algo
Schimid's
12Th St
Barclay & Sons
la. Ave
North
Jeest
Ollie
Aldo Fox
BB & I
Fons
Euppet Ant ‘Wathedi
Tobane North
Ian Wee
Scorah Roland
Tsa
Tmples
Kulerblatis
Ene
Columzn
Jewel Riverdal Wal
Sopr Rouen
C. B.G
BAUM
Foster
GEO T. Kr
Richmond
Niere
Georgetown Postoffice
Sanders & Stayman's
Sacrifice
HK St
Paris
N.Y. Ave. Nw
Sinclyclopedia Britannica
Gail
Catroat
Remington Typdwriter
Beunelsepink
Cleveland
St Nw
Furniture House
Garon Carroll
el Ave
ST. Ee
C. V
Nolitsha
A. Kahn’s
B.C
Ebornur
Eeaerdad
Ze Lith
Nla
Ee Ee
Rich
Brown
Margaret
Katherine Mens
Haith St
Lawrence
Croas
Rita
Bend
Bottlers' Protective Association
Maine
Abraham's
9Th St Nw
Mme Melba
F St Nw
Miss Barnes
I St
Arlington Hotel
National Detective & EB
Morgan Bradford
Justh
Chagrin Valley Poultry Farm Company
Chargrin Valley Poultry Farm Company
Savings Building
Cieveland
Leon Tobriner
Lizzin M Waler
Leon Tomriver
Anes Beal
James Tanner
Villa
Probata
Supreme Court OF the District OF Columbia
Supreme Court of the
District of Columbie
Carl Hugo Ziemenn
Supre Court
Rxld
Leon Torriner Algust Daetz
Leon Torriner
Altest
Claire
Thermal
Beneft
Anid
Washington Loan and Trust
Andrew Far Ker
Tremurer
James Taxkec
John B Larner
Supreme Court OF the District
Katharine M Bradley
Creditont
Washington, DC
William SM Hallam
Bhchivr
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!