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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1906
Page
11
Classified notices advertise room rentals and services with terms, hours, and agency locations. Listings include rooms, dictation, performers, sales, stenography, and civil service study, plus guidelines on ad placement and free ads deadlines. Handles include Washington Post agencies and noted addresses.
A cluttered page lists numerous help wanted ads for youths and young men across trades. openings include apprentice bookbinder, assistant wine steward, barber, shop boy, color worker, blacksmith helper, bookkeeper, porter, waiter, grocer clerk, painter, salesmen, and general labor with various hours and locations around Washington.
Classified notices seek colored women for domestic work including chambermaids cooks and waitresses plus general housework. Positions in private homes and hotels offer wages from 15 to 35 dollars weekly with night stays and long hours. Multiple agency listings urge applications to the Washington Domestic Guild and similar offices. many postings request strong references.
A long list of miscellaneous for sale items from a newspaper classifieds section including pianos uprights and players irons, bicycles, clothing, dogs and bull pups, rare books and manuals, incuba tors, carpentry tools, rugs and furniture, household appliances and odds and ends. Also ad listings for stoves ranges phonographs typewriters and a Cuban asphalt product.
Numerous private party ads offer a range of furniture pieces including an old French mirror with gold leaf frame, walnut chamber suite, iron bed with mattress, dining chairs, and oak bedroom set. Locations cited include 1207 0th Ave, 62b Ke, 3028 Q Ek, 1810 Gst. ne, 1510 N Cap. st, and 440 Brewer's court. Some ads request exchanges or moving sales, with prices and contact cues scattered.
Classified notice seeking small mahogany chest of drawers, chairs, hall seat and mirror with price offers. Also buying furniture, car pets stoves and other house hold goods. Baum's Furniture Shop lists contact details and phone numbers. Weather beds demanded at high prices from Smitn and Laport with address and phone.
Classified personals list multiple advertisers offering palmistry psychic readings for present life conditions and advice on love luck speculation and more. Also includes cash-for-clothes offers and manicuring services with contact details and hours.
Classified help wanted ads listing barbers, butlers, clerks, drivers, janitors, dairy workers, cooks, and other labor roles. Positions include private families, offices, hotel service, and shop clerks with varied locations in Washington area.
Centrally located corner grocery and meat market with about 565 daily business. Good reason for selling. Mail responses to BOX 174 this office. Also LADY PARTNER WANTED for PAY GOODS AND NOTION business. Capital about 400 or 600. Address C. BB this office. A GENTLEMAN ADMITTED TO PRACTICE LAW in DC seeks entry into established law firm. Address C SB by offer. FOR SALE EIGHT SHARES OF HOWARD LA bel stock. Address BOX 1 this office. WANTED MEN AND WOMEN TO TRY CUR Buchu Gis for kidney and bladder trouble. Slogan credited to Dr Warner of Baltimore. Send to THE JOHN WEDDERBURN CO., 618 Fst. PATENTS AND TRADE MARKS information. Send to J.P. NOTTINGRAM, 2 Fst ow., Washington, DC, for patent and trademark guidance.
Classified notices show exchanges and sales including shotgun, dining tables, iron couch, ice box, clothing tubs, colonial cottage for trade or sale, gas range exchange, shorthand dictation, incubator eggs exchange, fur for meals, novels for brass bed, and art engravings from historic estates. Multiple addresses and contact lines indicate varied offers across urban listings.
Miscible garbled listing offers a 1906 model Cadilliec runabout in good condition with folding seat for four, steel boiler, tires new, partial address details, a 32.00 hour hire rate for a large touring car, and contact clues at Shore's Automobile Tire Repair Shop and 1211 New York Ave.
A terse notice seeking money and offering bonds bearing interest. The fragment mentions saving 2 bonds and a nominal amount per anny with unclear numbers and dates.
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