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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1905
Page
10
Classified notices and job ads from Washington Post dated Monday October 30 1905. Includes vacancies for clerical, sales, and skilled labor positions across multiple Washington DC neighborhoods and nearby areas, with contact details and box addresses for responses. Notable items list solicitors, barbers, clerks, bakers, and street vendors seeking workers, along with agency locations at local drugstores for submitting ads.
Numerous classified ads seek workers: cleaners, cooks, dishwashers, drivers, coachmen, laborers, porters, clerks, dressers, stokers, printers, pressers, tailors, carpenters, paperhangers, plasterers, framers, and more. Positions note race indicated, locations mainly NW DC, varied wages, hours, and references required for many posts.
Classified notices show a rush of openings in New York and Washington for compositors pressmen electrotypers and office help. Listings request sober, competent men and women with strong references, offering permanent open-shop positions and competitive weekly wages.
A dense mix of help wanted notices seeks general housework workers in Washington DC. Listings specify black and white applicants, varying wages from modest to $12 per month, and references required. Many entries include streets like 1512 L St NW and 2143 N St NW, with tasks from cooking to ironing and babysitting.
A long OCR fragment lists numerous 19th to early 20th century classified ads offering domestic help and clerical work. Items include laundress and light housework jobs, nurses, seamstresses, salesladies, millinery apprentices, and waitresses. Jobs specify white or colored workers, night housing, and calls after 6 pm, with several addresses in Northwest and nearby streets.
Classified help wanted ad page lists multiple positions including a young colored man at Schmid's old store, a waitress for The Log Cabin Lunch Room, a white woman for house rent savings, women experienced in selling goods, a young colored girl for evening work at Flat 7 The Ashburn, white women cooks and maids at 15th Street residence, competent women for a three person family, plus a dresscutting and sewing school run by Prof. Livingston offering training and job prospects.
A jumble of lost items including a black and white Japanese dog, various watches, rings, a gold medal, a pocketbook with $25, a gold chain, a diamond ring, a silver watch chain, a satchel, a badge, a belt buckle, and a range of pets. Rewards offered for returns. Addresses and finder rewards noted throughout for many items.
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