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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1906
Page
11
The Washington Post offers free small want ads for help wanted and room rentals up to fifteen words with limits on timing. Advertisers may place multiple insertions as needed. mail or office drop offs accepted. avoid initials only directs. Agencies operate at Gray stores with 5 cent per ad processing.
Help wanted notices describe various positions. Listings seek men and women for health, music, elocution, stenography, and government exam preparation. Miscellaneous ads reference specific agencies and offices with names and addresses.
Classifieds list male applicants for carpentry, plumbing, machine work, and driving at firms like J. G. White & Co and Columbian Signal Works. Positions include janitorial, bookstore, clerk, bellman, barber, cook, farmhand, and delivery roles with emphasis on experience, references, and readiness to report to offices in Washington DC areas.
A dense cabinet of job ads and notices lists openings for positions from footmen and janitors to salesmen, upholsterers, and clerks. It includes requirements, locations in Northwest DC, Calvert Street, and government areas, plus distant postings in Lynchwood and Garrett Park, with varied hours and wage notes.
A dense, era-tinged help wanted column lists numerous positions in households and hotels. Roles include cook, nurse, laundress, chambermaid, waitress, and general housework. many entries specify race, hours, wages, and location across addresses in Washington and nearby suburbs. The notices show frequent references to The Washington Domestic Guild and private families seeking reliable workers for day and night shifts.
Classified notice listing numerous job ads including native French teacher for a private school, salesladies and saleswomen for various departments, a housemaid, seamstress, waitresses, stenographers, a typist, a washerwoman, and other domestic and retail positions. Includes contact box numbers and employer names such as Bedell & Co, M. Phillipsborn & Co, Columbia Phonograph Co, and Washington Domestic Guild.
A jumble of classified requests and listings. Items include dressmaking, furniture, pianos, a phonograph, a microscope, a bicycle, a dining room set, a desk, upholstery work, a safe, and various second hand goods, with buyers and sellers offering cash or trade in multiple neighborhoods.
Numerous secondhand goods listed for quick sale including leather couch, dining tables, beds, piano, typewriters, bicycles, phonographs, sewing machines, jewelry, and household items. Items priced to move with locations around 6th street to 18th street NW and nearby avenues. Buyers to call or visit addresses like 2190 28th St NW, 1610 6th St NW, and 1817 Monroe St. Prices range from a few dollars to hundreds for larger pieces.
A garbled ad lists folding beds, wardrobes, sideboards, dining tables, buffets, and other furniture for sale. Mentions include a walnut wardrobe, extension table, and a folding bed, with prices like 1102 stnw and 496 cast. Appears across a miscellaneous sale board with multiple misread entries.
An old classified notice offers cash for used furniture and household goods. Baum's Furniture Shop at 4th and Asts advertises quick payment and a phone contact North 4313. A separate ad from Snitzen & Laport seeks feather beds immediately with high prices and a phone number.
Ad fragment touts best quality opaque window shades and mentions styles and brands though text is garbled. Includes phrases like Beoteh Holland Shader and KLESOLATT'S with unclear examples. Difficult to extract concrete entities or dates.
A crowded list of lost belongings includes three white socks from Ith Street near Fat and Avenue, a Stray Terrier at Luna Fann with $15 reward, a ring, a key ring with Georgy W. Bead in Jermyn, a silver buckle belt near ith and Fots, a black silk umbrella from Sloan's Boston House or Wilsons, a chain bracelet and padlock near Rankin Streets, a child’s heart necklace on 6th Street near F and ats, a gold locket engraved A. B. G found at 1617 Gales, a St. Bernard female dog near White House stables, money in a purse at Annie Berry’s Anacostia asylum, a string of gold beads from Monroy, a gold necklace near 935 0 St NW, a crescent-shaped gold brooch, various dogs including a Welsh spaniel named RUBE, a coral brooch pin, and several other lost items with numerous rewards offered.
Found notations mark a pound carrier pighon with owners asked to call near the city post office. Inquiries directed to Mrs Aldrich at 180 T Street Northwest or to The John Weddes Burn Company, 618 F Street, for recovery and prescription references.
A jumble of classified personals and service notices offering cash for worn clothing including shoes hats and children's items. Also advertisements for palmistry services, beauty treatments, detective agency investigations, and high price offers for cast-off clothing. Names and addresses appear with old phone numbers and locations.
A garbled situations page lists numerous jobs and applicants. Positions include barber shop work, bookkeeper with double entry and typewriter skills, a clerk, a car painter and carpenter, a coachman, a houseman, and a domestic Guild recruitment. Addresses and names are inconsistently rendered, with BOX postal replies indicated.
A long list of help wanted notices seeks various positions including chef, clerical, coachman, janitor, clerk, stenographer, bookkeeper, waiters, cleaners, and general housework. Many entries specify color, race, or age notes. some request references and prior experience. Locations referenced include Washington area addresses and local employers like Washington Domestic Guild and Publishers.
Classified notice shows multiple job ads including female apprentices learning fur and dressmaking with modest pay, a grocery store clerk/treasurer keeper position, a stenographer with typewriting skill, a cashier with bookkeeping refs, and an inn keeper or boarding house host with dining room and kitchen duties plus board. Names street addresses in the odds and ends of the listing.
Advertisements for land sales partners stock and business opportunities scattered from Washington to Georgetown. Various listings include building lots near the Capitol, bank stock offers, dairy and meat grocery stores for sale, and domestic help ad placements.
A dense OCR style classified list shows multiple workers seeking domestic, watchman, and general labor roles. It includes white and colored men and women, various positions from chambermaid and cook to watchman, with numerous contact addresses and references. Entities include The Washington Domestic Guild, addresses on 6th and 17th Streets NW, and job types like cashier, pianist, and office helper.
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