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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1906
Page
11
Advertising policy details free small classifieds with limits and deadlines. Readers are urged to submit notices by mail or agency, with designated drug stores serving as ad drop points and initials directing to a single recipient.
Evening instruction for daytime workers in MW OX terms. Amateur three-act comedy mates and three women sought without charge or coaching. Organist needed for large church at ex. Small family seeks couple to share house in Ardress Morinwest with adult occupants. Wages for a man and wife to live part year. must cook, clean, and manage indoors and outdoors. Stenography demand exceeds supply. large number of jobs for typists and shorthand at Syndromic Academy, 315-218, Colorado.
A long list of job ads across roles such as laborers, clerks, bakers, jewelers, porters, and sales staff. Entries allege positions at various addresses with wages, prerequisites, and contact cues. Document references include Baker, Woodward & Lottrop, Baltimore Life Insurance, and Centre Market, among others.
A mangled OCR page lists varied employment notices including upholsterers woodworkers tin smiths harness makers and milling roles. It shows positions for foremen tailors clerks drivers typesetters and sales staff with pay notes and location hints, reflecting a bustling early 20th century labor market.
A scanned help wanted page lists multiple domestic positions in Washington areas. Jobs include cashier, bookkeeper, chambermaid, waiter, companion, and general housework. Many ads specify experience, age limits, neat appearance, and references. Ethnic and color descriptors appear in several notices, with addresses given and instructions to apply at the Washington Domestic Guild or corresponding offices.
Classified notices offer cook, maid, general housework, laundress, and nurse positions. Advertisements seek white and colored women, eager to work in private homes across Washington, New York, and nearby areas, with wages and boarding provided. Many listings specify experience, competence, or language in domestic tasks and ironing, with immediate starts and specific addresses.
A jumble of want ads and notices lists jobs items and services from a piano to a portable oven and private instruction. It mentions guitar pupils a horse portrait photographer and a family man seeking room and board plus various sales offers and requests to buy or sell goods. The fragment hints at a 14th Street area context with multiple names and addresses and a miscellaneous mix of requests.
Miscellaneous for sale listing assorted items from upright pianos to rifles, bicycles, school cadet gear, and a typewriter. Items include Rosewood upright piano, fine brown French-made wig, Remington writer, guns, cattle gear, and hobby equipment with varied prices and conditions. Most listings offer cash or quick sale terms and some require pickup or delivery.
Classified notices list exchanges and wants including a Brentwood building lot 25 by sh et for dining room furniture, a reed organ, and a white woman seeking domestic work in exchange for room, board, and location. college student seeks elementary tuition exchange. office desk room and kitchen floor heating offered. Includes various ads for sale or exchange and furniture items, with contact box numbers.
Unclear OCR fragment shows a Wellington office rental or hire note for a 1901 Wilbur item. Mentions typewriters and a possibly dated address with unclear numbers. Further readable details are scarce.
Classified want ads show buyers seeking furniture and metal beds frames springs and appliances, offering cash payments and urgent pickup. Numerous listings request prompt responses with contact details and prices, including baby items, wallets and jewelry left as rewards for returns.
An old classified ad style page fragment lists car sales and repairs. It advertises automobile tires and repair shop near Shore and Kew York, mentions Fane mate ast and Wayne two cylinder cars for sale at bargain, with top features and odometer. The entry also includes stray names and street references from the era.
An assortment of job seekers and household help ads from a historic newspaper page. Listings include accountants, clerical workers, bookkeepers, stenographers, domestic workers, chambermaids, cooks, waitresses, janitors, janitors, and tradesmen. Several entries specify race and color, with requests for references and private-family or hotel work, plus class distinctions and addresses.
A jumble of items offered for sale includes a large mix of furniture musical instruments clothing and household goods. Notable mentions include a beautiful upright piano a Stanley Steamer model a portable typewriter several chairs tables a Mahogany stand a tiger striped rug and a horse wagon. Addresses and contact notes appear with several prices and item conditions vary from cheap to good.
Classified advertisement offering furniture for sale and rent. Items include mahogany dining set, dining table, chairs, bed frames, mattresses, sideboards, wardrobes, chests, rugs, carpets, and a folding bed with mirror. Also lists oak wardrobes, a quartered oak table, a folding chair set, a piano bench, and a rowing machine. Various prices and contact callouts included.
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