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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1913
Page
3
Printed help wanted notices list numerous positions for housework, nurse, chambermaid, and related domestic services. Applicants include white and colored women offering cleaning, cooking, child care, washing, and errands in various neighborhoods, with references and work by day or in private homes.
A列tionary bold old newspaper classifieds advertise day or week work by colored women for washing ironing cleaning and general chores. Listings include addresses such as 1129 19th st 1803 T si ow 3 and 665 fourth st nw with notes on home or out work and neat reliable applicants. Several entries seek da ys work or bund le washing and a few mention yard or gentle men’s services.
A dense advertisement page lists numerous by day and by home laundry and laundering services. Entries include first class laundresses and colored workers offering washing ironing and house cleaning for private families both at home and out by day or week with addresses such as Cleveland 2 hae see, 2207 Cleveland, 10 Hanover st nw, 1713 Pat. aw, 1311 22th at aw, 1709 8th st no.16, 957 Fla. eve nw, and many more across Washington locations.
Advertises furnished rooms for rent in a new house and detached dwellings across Northwest and Northeast DC. Listings include private baths, kitchens, hot water, and varying rents. several rooms boast front or back locations, summer rates, or proximity to Capitol, M. C. A., and transit. Names and streets shown for many properties.
A dense OCR listing numerous furnished rooms for rent across Washington DC neighborhoods including St NW near the Library of Congress and Congressional Library, Massachusetts Ave NW, O Street, and surrounding streets. Descriptions note private baths, heating, utilities, central locations, summer rates, and proximity to car lines, with many rooms advertised as suitable for gentlemen, couples, or single occupants.
Classified notices detail numerous rooms for let with board in DC neighborhoods. Listings include large furnished rooms with meals, private baths, steam heat, and phone services. locations span 13th Street NW to Mount Pleasant and Dupont Circle. Many offer transients accommodated, car-line proximity, and varying rates from $5 to $32.50 per week.
Advertisements offer furnished or unfurnished rooms across multiple NW and NE streets near Capitol, Union Station, and Georgetown lines. Rooms feature kitchen access, private baths, board options, and reasonable rents. some include use of parlor or drawing rooms and proximity to transit. Individual requests seek single rooms, two rooms for couples, and blue- and white-collar tenants.
A young woman recalls a Paris Bon Marche cloak and dreams as she shops for gowns. In a department store laid with wax figures she finds a white chiffon gown with a marked down price and seamless alterations. She celebrates a day of shopping with Warren and imagines future Paris fashion adventures.
The District of Columbia invites sealed proposals for constructing the Repair and Storage Building for the Fire Department in Washington DC. Bids are due August 12, 1913, at 2 pm in Room 509 District Building. Plans require a deposit. obtain forms from the Chief Clerk, Engineer Department, Room 427. Commissioners Newman Siddons Harding supervise.
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