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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1906
Page
11
A dense trimmed OCR page shows a mix of help wanted advertisements and notices. Entries mention painters carpenters bakers store clerks barbers pharmacists and various trades, with locations across Washington area addresses and pharmacy names.
A jumble of job ads seeks young women for office work bookkeeping and cashier roles, and helper positions in garment and general shops. Wages range from 2 to 15 dollars with several locations including 1420 XY and 2112 Wyoming Ave. Applicants should be over 19, possess basic literacy, and be available for winter shifts. addresses and contact details appear for The Washington Domestic Guild and related employers.
Classified seeks numerous home jobs. cook, washer, houseworker, maid, and for white and colored women. Offers include live-in and day work with wages, in families across Washington area, many postings specify references and immediate start.
A dense classified page lists numerous job ads and notices for domestic workers and clerical help in Washington. Positions include nurse maids, cooks, laundresses, stenographers, bookkeepers, and companions. Several listings specify color or race, hours, wages, and contact methods, withBOX numbers and local guild references for submissions.
An advertisement style notice seeks partners and investors for commercial ventures in a mid city area. It mentions manufacturing, hotels, rooming houses, and business exchanges with asks for capital from 1000 to 5000 dollars. The notice lists multiple business opportunities and addresses or box numbers for responses. It reads like a classified listing from an early 20th century business section.
A scattered classifieds page offers multiple items for sale or wanted. Entries include secondhand clothing, furniture, musical instruments, tools, boating gear, horses and wagon, a rare gold watch, typewriters, a catalog of repairs, and job requests. Names like CHASH MORRIS, WELSON & CO, THE PORT MANUFACTURER, and GENE MIEVE appear with various locations and contact hints.
A dense OCR mix of lost items and runaway ads lists wallets purses jewelry pianos potted plants and various goods with rewards offered. Mentions include a baby carriage a silk handkerchief a garden tool a typewriter and a Wellington office item. Names and locations appear irregularly amid scattered rewards and contact hints.
A dense OCR collage shows assorted help wanted ads for domestic workers drivers chauffeurs clerks and tutors and a wide array of lost and found items including jewelry watches wallets and rings. The fragmented text also lists several positions such as coachman cook porter and clerk and references the Washington Domestic Guild for employment services.
A garbled notice mentions eyewear items and a service request near a north street area, with unclear references to payment and collection. It reads like an OCR error, offering contacts or instructions for obtaining spectacles or related items, but the exact details are unintelligible.
An OCR fragment lists ads for English lessons in exchange for address, a girl’s bicycle, and furnishing for sale. Also seeks two ladies in office, two rooms to rent in a well kept home, private family with two adults, and mentions a shorthand position. Local office contact appears as MC.
Epacheay and Cook seek positions with a Washington company. The man is a reliable general handyman and rate negotiable. The woman is an experienced cook and good plate housekeeper. Apply to 2346 27th Street, Washington Com Street Building.
A jumble of classified listings seeks workers in many fields. Advertised positions include accountants clerks domestic workers barbers bartenders stenographers salesmen solicitors and more with ages genders and addresses scattered throughout the damaged text.
Vulgar garbled list of furniture for sale including walnut set, bedstead, wardrobe, dining table, washstand, carpet, and other items. Mentions Admiral Rex building address and sale by private auction with broad price ranges and multiple room items.
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