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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1905
Page
30
A long list of agency locations for placing ads across Northwest and surrounding districts is provided, followed by multiple help wanted notices. Listings include positions such as coat and skirt hand, cook, presser, barber, office boy, typist, bundle wrapper, and various shop and labor roles with brief location cues and contact notes. Many ads specify whites and colors, ages, and wage hints, reflecting period employment language.
An assortment of job notices seeks workers including colored men for coal wagon driving, a night cook skilled in oysters, drivers, clerks, laborers, elevator conductors, farm hands, press feeders, hotel housemen, and various trades. Positions announce ages, refs, and locations such as 1414 C St NW, 1209 32nd St NW, 325 T St NW, and addresses along M St NW, 19th St NW, and 21st St NW.
Classified ads solicit workers from tinners and upholsterers to waiters, clerks, chambermaids, and general houseworkers. Positions include youth typesetters, experienced upholsterers, yardmen, drivers, messengers, and cooks. Many include fifty-cent to weekly pay, age or experience notes, and address instructions in the Washington area.
Classified ads list numerous cook positions for colored and white women, including first class cooks, general housework, and ironing for small families and boarding houses. Addresses span Mass Ave NW to 39th St NW with references required and varying shift patterns.
Multiple small ads seek women for general housework in Washington DC, including German and colored workers. Positions offer liberal wages, varying hours, and references. locations include St. NW, Decatur Place NW, L Street NW, 9th Street NW, 19th Street NW, and other addresses. Some specify stay nights, cooking, washing, ironing, or child care. several require good references and language notes.
Classified style listings show numerous sewing and domestic roles in Washington DC area, including seamstresses of various colors and a white seamstress, dressmaker referrals, general housework servants, stenographers and typewriters, stock clerk, suit hands, pianists, waitresses, and a dresscutting coach. The ads request experience, references, and sometimes age or residence details. Addresses listed include Grant Ave NW, 815 Grant Ave NW, 1740 Riggs Place, 327 18th St NW, 1736 NY Ave NW, 1704 G St NW, and others in the NW quadrant and nearby streets.
Horse and vehicle ads from Washington area for hire or sale. Listings include a four to six seat bus, a stylish trap with foldable design, a high bred chestnut gelding city-broke and fearless, a pure white High School horse named Christopher Columbus, and a range of carriages, harness, and buggy gear. Also notes on stables and estate offerings in Georgetown and downtown DC with prices and contact lines.
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