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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1906
Page
11
The notice outlines free want ad columns offering help, room rentals, and other small ads with a 15 word limit per ad. It details drop-off times, agency locations, and multiple Washington area drugstores serving as stations for submitting ads, with various addresses listed.
Help wanted notices advertise job openings for stenographers and clerical staff at multiple firms. Positions include junior office help and typist tasks with specified hours on upcoming dates. Local agencies promote a stenographic academy offering a course of 30 to 80 days to prepare applicants.
Varied job listings seek male applicants for sales, delivery, and factory work. Positions include agent to sell stock and bonds, elevator boy, driver, bundle wrappers, and assorted skilled trades. Several notices specify color or race applicants and living area requirements, with boxes and contact details for submissions.
A dense classified page lists jobs including meat cutter and grocery clerk, office worker, porters, printers, paperhangers, plumbers helper, salesmen, solicitors, stenographers, waiters, clerks, artists, and general laborers. Many postings specify ages, refs, schooling, and wages. addresses and box numbers are given for applications.
A dated job list from a Washington area paper seeking workers: apprentice millinery parlor help, a bookkeeper, cashiers, waitresses, chambermaids, and domestic roles. Listings specify race when noted, with references and conditions, and include Box 183 and various street addresses for applications.
A fragmented Help Wanted page lists numerous openings including white cooks with good references, chambermaids, waitresses, and reception staff. Positions specify white or mixed genders, residency at 2225 Q St NW and other streets, and emphasize references, cleanliness, and experience. Some ads promote health cures, clothing sales, and domestic staffing for families in the Washington area.
Miscellaneous item notes Washington Rug Co at 831 Bth NE with phone 43 showing a furniture weaving concern. The brief mentions four old carpets woven into dive art jugs as the only weaving matter.
Classified ad listing numerous domestic roles across Washington D C incl cooks housemaids chambermaids waitresses and laundresses plus stenographers typists and garment workers. Wages vary small flats and private families many positions remain open with instructions to apply to The Washington Domestic Guild or local offices for immediate employment opportunities.
Classified notices advertise numerous for sale items including a piano, Remington rifle, Yale motorcycle, a high school cadet uniform, a folding bed with wardrobe, a rubber plant, oak extension table, a dining cabinet, a bed with springs, a pool table, and various office records. Also listed are a talking machine, a typewriter, an upright piano, a mahogany piano, a gas range, and a bay horse with harness. Addresses and contact notes accompany many items.
Classified notices show calls for experienced partners in an established Maryland cream business and a timber mill investment in Virginia. Also offers to manage hotels, buy stock in a DC corporation, and general business inquiries. Listings include patent and trademark information and a lunch room sale in a good location.
Classified style notices show items for exchange including a Krag-Jorgensen rifle, a Remington typewriter, a horse and carriage, and rooms for cleaning or laundry work. Proposals involve teaching, music, and boarding, with several addresses and contact hints scattered across the page.
Found notice describes a pigeon with band and leg markings, asking owners to identify and recover. Mentions location near Atlantic Blog and time window from 9 to 4. Indicates recovery reward possibilities and references a Baltimore doctor and the John Vedder Burn Company.
FURNITURE FOR SALE with various items including LAROE'CHEVAL GLASS at 18, oak dining extension table, washstand, coach, folding bed, brass bedstead, library pieces, rugs, carpets, mats, left in private family. Also MAHOGANY PRINCESS DRESSER, Davenports, Davenport lounge, rugs, heavy wardrobes. 134 VL ave, 3T MINGLE. 2818 wt after Sunday.
Classified ad fragment listing buyers for furniture, bric a brac, pets, and household goods. Mentions Baum's Furniture Shop at a corner, plus call outs for feather beds, second hand furniture, and other items. Includes names and addresses of buyers and a box number for responses.
A garbled personal column lists assorted ads for hair care and manicuring services, clothing buyouts, and urged telegraphic responses. It promises high cash payments for old clothes and mentions several names and addresses in Washington with various services and solicitations. The item reads as a chaotic, fragmented late-night classifieds listing with many misspellings and stray prompts.
Advertisements offer office space in the Colorado Building and Collins-Gurery Building with heat light and janitor service included. Rates range from 10 to 42.50 per month per person, with desks, a roll-top desk, basement floors, water and electricity. Also featuring office rooms for rent near the People's Savings Bank at 910 1th Street with reasonable terms.
Male applicants seek work in teaching, clerical, trades, or service roles in Washington area. Listings include piano and English instruction, accounting, bookeeping, stenography, bartenders, cooks, chauffeurs, drivers, butlers, carpentry, farm labor, and general labor. References offered. multiple addresses and contact box numbers.
A noisy job board lists male situations wanted entries in a Washington DC area classified page. Advertisements include stenographers clerks tutors tailors drivers waiters butlers upholsterers caretakers and a range of domestic workers with ages colors and street addresses, box numbers and company names. The notices seek part or full time positions in offices homes or hotels emphasizing experience references and willingness to relocate within the region.
A column listing numerous domestic job ads and helpers including chambermaid, seamstress, governess, companion, cook, and stenographer roles. Entries specify white or colored applicants, wage ranges, locations around 17th street NW to 12th street, and requests for refined ladies or reliable workers. many ads direct applicants to the Washington Domestic Guild for contact.
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