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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1906
Page
9
Free advertising offered in The Washington Post want ad columns with limits on timing and repetition. Ads may cover rooms for rent and similar needs, with agency drop-off points listed across Northwest Northeast Southeast and Anacostia.
A jumble of help wanted notices listing positions and verbs like sweepers and stenographers. Includes address 12th Street and references to a campaign song composer and typewriter company. Mentions employment department cooperation and instructors, with scattered typographic errors.
A dense, chaotic list of male help wanted ads across many trades. Includes positions such as salesman, jewelers, bookkeeper, barber, driver, grocer, clerk, gardener, painter, and factory roles. Various locations and contact references appear, with notes on experience, recommendations, and wages.
A dense cluster of classified ads seeking male help across many roles. Positions include salesmen for furnishing goods, drug firm workers, a stableman, waiters, and a coachman. Also listings for craftsmen, a clerk, and a supervisor at a naval academy. Numerous boxes, addresses, and contact instructions scattered throughout.
Many job ads seek white women for cooking cleaning and general housework in Washington area homes. Positions include chambermaid, cook, waitress, cashier, and personal assistant with references required. hours vary from morning to evening. some postings note wage ranges and proximity to NW streets.
A long list of help wanted ads from a Washington newspaper includes numerous general housework positions for women of various colors, ages, and locations. Listings specify stay nights, no laundry work, references, and different wage expectations. also seeking cooks, maids, nurses, waitresses, saleswomen, stenographers, and staff for hotels and offices with varying requirements and shifts.
A bustling classified ad row lists numerous used furniture items for sale including refrigerators parlor suites dining sets beds chairs wardrobes and mirrors. Prices range from small discounts to sacrifice deals with locations around 11th street nw 14th street nw and masa avenue and many entries describe condition and quick sale terms. Also featured are folding beds couches gas stoves wardrobes and antique sideboards with contact notes for immediate purchase.
Miscellaneous notice advertises woven carpets and art rugs by Washington Rug Co at 801 Bh at ne, phone 4425. Includes land ship particulars and price terms. mentions IRA and Honda model in fragmentary form.
Classified list of used goods including uprights, pianos from Huntington and Droop, various prices from 200 to 850, bicycles, typewriters, cameras, folding go-carts, strollers, stamps, a pool table, and other household items. Advertises contact details, location, and bargain claims from FRANK SWEENEY and A-FOR SALE sections.
A jumble of small notices and ads lists various requests and offers including a missing person note, furniture storage rates, an antique fraternity pin appeal, cabinet and upholstery work, trunk sales, ginger ale, a horse for sale, advertising novelties, suburban poultry plant rental, upholsterer work, and a baby girl adoption inquiry.
Notices announce bids due Saturday September 1 1906 at noon for stock provisions wood horses wagons and other property of the late Isaac Reed man Good Hope DC with court confirmation and buyer deposit details. Also listed are business opportunities including a 16 year old beer-houl ing business and partnerships and rooming houses with various asking prices and contact references.
Fragmentary help wanted notice seeks a caretaker for a house, with references to a white male and a summer residence. Contains garbled wording and unclear contact details, but indicates job, location near a road, and an address fragment at 1200 U Street.
A long, scattered classified listing for a male engineer seeking varied work. It includes entries such as an electrician capable of tuning equipment, an accountant seeking home study work, a barber, bartender, bookkeeper, clerk, and many domestic and trade positions, with BOX references and contact notes.
Classified ads offering positions for caretakers chambermaids housekeepers and companions. Includes colored and white applicants sought for private families hotels and residences with various duties and references expected. Box and contact details appear throughout in dated Washington listings.
Local ads seek cash for furniture carpets stoves bric a brac and household goods at Baums Furniture Shop and a wanted ad from Snitzen and Laport offering top prices for feather beds. Box 24 in this office requests responses.
Miscellaneous listings call for a manicurist, affordable auto lamps, reflex camera without lens, Edison phonographs, a four burner gas stove, instant cash for pawnable items, old gold and silver, a light for boat launch, a second hand upright piano, portable drawing tabs, and feathers buyers. Respond with description and price to PO Box addresses or local offices.
Personal notices show Mrs Elnora Brown missing since August 19 seeks correction of home absence errors. A Southern widow potential guardian offers to care for a widower's child in her home with instructions. Buyers seek all worn garments and hats for cash, with houses and services like manicuring and detective agency advertised, including calls and postal offers.
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