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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1906
Page
11
The Washington Post announces free advertising for simple want ads up to fifteen words in its small columns, with limits on daily insertions and deadlines. Advertisers may submit at offices or via mail to The Washington Post, with numerous agency locations listed for drop-offs and a five cent per ad delivery fee.
A ร้อมaged collage of help wanted notices promising wages and positions. Listings include bundle wrappers for King’s Palace at 7th Street, Butler and Cook, a farmer and wife near a Virginia farm ten miles from Washington, farm help inquiries, and an ad for stenographers and typists through a commercial academy. Also notes on a gun catalog promotional item and medical product claims.
A collage of job advertisements offering male help wanted with bookkeeping sales and general labor. Listings include box addresses, hours, and required experience, from clerks to delivery personnel and drivers, with ages and relocation notes, in a dense urban classified page style. Many entries specify rooms or offices, locations around NW and surrounding streets and tens.
Classified help wanted ads list roles from machinists to jewelers to tailors and laborers. Positions seek prompt applicants, wages from 6 to 25 dollars weekly, various ages, bonds, references, and steady work. addresses include 91 F St, 935 Pu Ave, 489 Delaware, and 1197 Fa Ave with offices at Columbian Building and other Washington locations.
Classified help wanted notice seeking workers for millinery parlors and hotel rooms. Listings include experienced bookkeeper and cashier positions, chambermaids, waitresses, a dining room attendant, and a colored woman for a mail-order style job. Apply to local addresses with references and salary expectations.
A dense listing of help wanted notices for chambermaids waitresses cooks and general housework workers. Includes many colored and white applicants with references wage offers white and colored workers needed at multiple addresses around Washington DC and surrounding areas.
A dense classifieds page lists multiple job ads for houseworkers, maids, cooks, nurses, clerks, and stenographers. It notes positions in private homes and hotels with specifics on race where stated, hours, pay, and contact addresses including 7th Street NW and 1259 Irvin Street. For applicants, references and eligibility are emphasized, with numerous postings encouraging women to apply through the Washington Domestic Guild and other local employers.
A collage of classified business notices from The Morning News lists opportunities including a full paper and job office outfit for sale in Charlottesville Virginia, a boarding house with potential yearly income and a quick sale price, and requests for experienced bakers financiers partners and managers. Additional items include a lunch room for sale, a Maryland real estate note, and patent and trade mark guidance.
Various barter requests appear from a distressed mix of items. Exchanges include a child’s crib, sled, ping pong table, stove, skates, a Remington typewriter, and a piano lesson swap. Also offered are a cow, poultry, a horse and harness, a colored woman for cleaning, and a rubber-tired runabout safe for a gentleman buyer.
Weaving concern Washington Bug Co located at 21 5th at NW offers four old carpets woven into decorative art tubs. Phone 4225.
Classified notices seeking a horse and buggy driver, a phonograph, typewriters, scales, a steam boiler, a bicycle, a large roll top desk, and other second hand items for cheap cash. Several offers request board and home for a child or a girl, with locations in Washington and surrounding areas.
Miscellaneous for sale items scraped from a late issue. lists violins by Italian, Feepoh, and German makers, stoves, beds, sewing machine, diamond ring, Edison phonograph, incubators, watch dog, launch, relic, dining table, golf set, catalogs of stock, canaries, and various household items. Several addresses and contact hints included.
Classified ad notes an expensive upright mahogany piano in good condition, used ten months, offered cheap as owner leaves for Washington soon, with contact via BOX 178 at the office. Also mentions other items for sale such as a gas stove, bicycle, and various furniture and small goods from different listings.
Auction-style notice lists parlor and bedroom furniture for cheap by a naval officer captain Away. items include folding beds mirror-front beds tables chairs chests couches leather items and various brass and oak pieces. Also carpet rugs lamps and small refrigerators with prices and location at 428 11th NW 1905 F st NW and 1118 eth st NW plus other addresses.
A jumble of classified ads seeks cash for used furniture, beds, folding chairs, stoves, and bric a brac. Also requests for second hand furniture, and buyers offering top prices for clothing, hats, and personal items with prompt pickup. Local shops and individuals advertise in a rapid, bargain driven format.
A garbled late 19th or early 20th century classified column lists numerous lost items including a dog a shawl a diamond setting a gold pendant a watch and an umbrella with rewards offered. Also appearing are many help wanted positions across white and colored applicants from coachmen to clerks and skilled trades, with contact details and addresses for return or application.
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