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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1906
Page
9
The Washington Post outlines free advertising in its columns with strict limits and multiple agency drop-off points. It lists pharmacies and stores as stations for want ads, noting 3 cents per ad via agencies and posting restrictions after 9 pm and on Saturdays.
Liberal salary and commission offered to salesmen with wide acquaintance. Position seeks control of customers for suburban routes in northwest section. Apply after 30 pm at 618 Colorado Building. Contact G H. Sat ne.
A scanned employment page lists numerous positions from caretakers and waiters to stenographers carpenters bakers and drivers. Advertisements seek married couples students and single men and women with varied ages and experience, offering day wages steady hours and room and board where noted.
A dense string of 1900s era job notices seeks youths and adults for clerks, house cleaners, porters, sales, drivers, and farmhands. Listings include United States Press Company helpers, office workers, colored workers for dining rooms, waiters, bellmen, and various shop roles with age ranges from 14 to 18 and adults. Wages, locations, and contact references accompany each posting.
A dense listing of help wanted notices seeks female cooks, housemaids, laundresses, and nannies. Many postings specify color preference, stay-in or nights, refs required, and wages from $12 per month to $16 weekly, with locations across northwest and downtown Washington and surrounding neighborhoods.
A garbled 1920s style page lists many job notices seeking white and colored women for office work, servant duties, waitresses, sales, stenography, and domestic help. Entries name organizations such as Washington Guild, Hecht & Co, and various addresses, with varied requirements and compensation hints.
Classifieds list opportunities to buy and sell varied goods and services from carpets and bicycles to furniture, vehicles, pets, and rental options. Personal notices seek homes for children, for a teacher or painter, boarding for girls, and a ride or horse keeping. Many listings include contact details and locations in Washington area.
Classified ad notices list stock sales at $19 to $40 per share in Merchants and Mechanics Savings Bank, real estate offers near the Capitol, a mine management position in Virginia, a boarding rooming house with 17 rooms, and various employment and patent information. Also offers for a cobalt mining camp stock, a pocket Holtzclaw patent, and piano or room and board arrangements.
A cluttered late 19th or early 20th century want ad page lists rings, watches, pins, a gold pocketbook, a diamond tie, a Boston bulldog, and a variety of household goods for sale or lost. It includes multiple locales around Washington DC with contact notes for reward offers, and entries seeking cash for furniture, a mahogany dining table, chairs and chests.
Automobiles prices for Diamond Continental and Fisk tires claim 90 percent additional reduction. Jones Auto Tire Works advertises vulcanizing and repair with phone contact. Shore's Automobile Tire Repair Shop offers large touring car for hire at 2.50 per hour. Capitol Hill Garage Co seeks Cadillac rurabolt late model in good condition.
A dense classified listing shows numerous positions sought or offered in private households and small businesses. Roles include butler, coachman, cook, chambermaid, janitor, clerk, stenographer, bookkeeper, draughtsman, driver, gardener, elevator attendant, and various domestic service posts. Many entries request references and specify locations around Washington DC, with frequent mentions of The Washington Domestic Guild as the recruiting channel.
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