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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1915
Page
6
A dense list of help wanted ads seeking male workers including stenographers, tutors, typists, upholsterers, watchmen, and general labor. Contains many names and partial addresses, with notes on hours, wages, and availability.
Classified style notice seeks colored women for positions including housework cook maid waitress and chambermaid with references offered. Entries specify locations such as 11th and 8th streets and various avenues, noting compensation and housing options while listing calls for experienced helpers and caretakers. The page shows numerous names and ages, with emphasis on reliability and flexibility for private households.
A dense classified column offers many positions for domestic work. Frequent entries seek COOKS and HOUSEWORKWOMEN, primarily colored applicants, with various hours and reliable refs. Also listed are dressmakers, hotel staff, nurses, and waitresses seeking local or travel assignments with contact refs and addresses.
Advertisements offering NURSE and DOMESTIC help by neat colored girls and women. Listings include care for babies and invalids, housework, sewing, cooking, waitressing, and clerical stenography. Contacts include addresses in Northwest and downtown Washington, with phone numbers and references.
Neatly furnished rooms across Washington DC area with some including bath or kitchenette. Listings cover several streets and buildings, offering single or double rooms, with options for board, private family homes, or hotel-like setups. Prices range from modest weekly rates to monthly terms, some with heat and hot water included.
A crowded page of 1900s help wanted notices lists numerous laundress and washing at home jobs. Many entries specify first class, day by colored women, or by reliable women with locations around Mount Pleasant, Corcoran, Natl, and 4th Street NW. Several ads offer work by the week or day, with references and home or out options.
A dense list of rental rooms across NW Washington near Union Station and trains. Advertisements describe furnished and unfurnished single and double rooms with baths, phone service, proximity to transit, and varying prices from about $8 to $14 monthly, with many rooms private and in well kept houses.
Advertises numerous furnished rooms in private homes across NW with Southern or northern exposure. Features include front rooms, parlors, balconies, near Du Pont Circle, near Commerce Building, and near government departments. Rates vary. some rooms include meals or board, some with private family, modern amenities, and hot water. Suitable for quiet gentlemen and single occupancy.
Broad range of furnished and unfurnished rooms for rent across Washington DC areas including Dupont Circle Mt Pleasant Adams Morgan and Georgetown. Several listings offer meals private baths hot water or water heat and proximity to transit. Prices vary with amenities from private boards to shared lounges with references to weekly rates and monthlies.
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