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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1906
Page
11
Public notices offer free personal wants advertisements up to fifteen words in the Washington Post free columns with one ad per person per day. If responses fail, additional insertions are allowed. offices and agencies listed across districts provide weekly ad delivery for a small fee.
A crowded Classifieds page lists male help wanted across many roles in Washington DC area. Advertisements seek intelligent farm hands, bartenders, clerks, drivers, porters, errand boys, store workers, sailers, sewing and upholstery staff, janitors, a guitar teacher, government clerks, and more. Several listings specify experience requirements, references, and location cues such as 6th Street NW, 39th Street, and local employers like Woodward and Lothrop, Law Reporter Printing Co, and Garment stores. Prospective applicants are invited to apply at indicated addresses and offices with emphasis on reliability and prior work.
A dense classifieds page lists numerous job openings and roles. Positions include licensed engineers, machinists, night engineers, painters, paperhangers, and salesmen. Also sought are dairy workers, farmhands, clerks, stenographers, teachers, porters, waiters, and a variety of tradespeople. Several postings specify experience, sobriety, or religious and racial qualifiers, with many offering steady hours, wages, and training. The item captures a broad sweep of urban employment opportunities and the era’s employment culture.
A collage of job ads seeks female help including cooks, chambermaids, waitresses, and laundresses in Washington and Rockville. Listings call for colored or white workers, with various ages and duties, from country homes to city apartments, some with reference requirements and shift needs.
Fragmentary classified ad listing female kelp wanted and miscellaneous items for sale. Appears to be garbled text with partial phrases about cooks, experiences, and personal attributes. lacks clear names, places, or dates.
Two old carpets are woven into fine art pieces highlighting weaving artistry in Washington District. Local craftsman Bil Eth notes the project centers on transforming recycled textiles into decorative panels and tapestries. Phono 4323.
A dense jumble of old classified pleas for furniture, household items, clothing, pets, tools, and services. Listings include uphostery, pianos, bicycles, cannery of odd items, and numerous personal ads seeking buyers, sellers, and help in Washington area.
A jumble of classifieds offers for sale businesses, real estate, and services. Listings include a dairy lunchroom, an expert watchmaker seeking a partner in Washington, a first class meat and grocer store, a cheap grocery provision store, a complete paper and job office outfit in Charlottesville, a flat of 2000 square feet near the Capitol, cordwood and timber bids, a partner for an established business requiring 5000 dollars, a financial and business partner wanted, and medical patent trade information.
Classified notices offer exchange for a solitaire diamond ring, a piano, an Edison phonograph, a quartered oak rocking chair, a good condition watch, a painting, an organ, a Spanish lesson, a thoroughbred pointer, and various furniture sets. Listings specify boxes and offices for responses, with prices and locations noted.
Cash paid for furniture and bric a brac. Sell your goods to the shop offering prompt payment and trade in. Contact Baum's Furniture Shop at 186 and Phone North 1818. Also noting Snitzen & Laport at N.W. phone N.1102.
A long scanned page lists numerous lost items including a silver handled umbrella from Great Falls, a pair of bi focal eyeglasses, a gold locket with Masonic emblem, a black and white fox terrier named Dag, a gold watch with a gold medallion, and various rings, keys, and jewelry. Rewards offered for returns. contact addresses given such as 202 Hochambeau and 930 St NW. multiple dates in September and October implied.
Situations wanted notices from a page include a Butler and Cook man and wife seeking revelry good references furnished 174 Ipt nw careers reliable couples with female income bowls or apartment scrupulously neat tools for repairs addressed to this office soprano and bass wish positions or small remuneration for chorus work in church chair box 96 5.
A compact classified page shows multiple situations wanted ads. Listings seek bartenders, bookkeepers, clerks, roomboys, butlers, carpenters, chauffeurs, and chefs. Applicants emphasize experience, references, and willingness to work, with addresses for responses through the Washington Domestic Guild and other office boxes.
A dense collage of classified help ads seeks chambermaids, waitresses, clerks, caregivers, and general labor. Listings include colored and white applicants, positions in hotels, private homes, offices, and schools, with many references requested and apply to the Washington Domestic Guild and similar agencies.
Fragmented jumble of job ads including help wanted for a thumbermaid waiter refs days and times, a kidney bladder medicine request, stenography training appeal, and a white man and wife for country work. Ads show dosing of times and addresses in a tarnished 19th century notice style.
A young man, G W U student, seeks clerical or related work with references available. He requests contact via this office and provides BOX 380 as the mailing address. He also notes interest in private help such as a chauffeur role or driver for a doctor, seeking dependable employment and good references.
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