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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1908
Page
31
Classified listings show a wide array of employment seeks and domestic staffing requests. Men advertise for night watchman, porter, elevator operator, repair work, sales, and office tasks, while women seek chambermaid, cook, laundress, companion, nurse, stenography, and general housework roles with varied hours and locations across the city.
Classified listing shows numerous furnished and fur rooms for rent in NW DC. Options include front rooms with private baths, large two and four room suites, single and double rooms with heat and gas, transient accommodations, and proximity to Union Station, Capitol, and library. Prices range from modest weekly rates to monthly rents, with emphasis on clean, well-kept houses and proximity to public car lines.
Regrettably fragmentary rental notice indicating multiple rooms for rent in Northwest near Capitol, with details of rates around one dollar a week to roughly five dollars monthly, features including board or without board, and clean well kept houses. Names and full addresses are incomplete due to OCR damage, preventing precise listing.
Numerous rooms for rent in Northwest and Northeast Washington with or without board, many featuring fur nished front and back rooms, heat, gas, and bath. Listings include proximity to Union Station, Capitol, and various avenues and streets, with per month rates ranging from about $4 to $45 and summer rates noted.
A dense classified page lists numerous rooms for rent in NW and NE Washington with options for furnished or unfurnished, including large front rooms, bay windows, shared kitchens, baths, heat, and near various streets. Some ads offer private family arrangements, board, or hotel-like units, with prices from $15 to around $40 per month and notes on proximity to transit, GPO, Capitol, and Lincoln Park. Many entries specify floor level, room size, and whether pets or occupancy limits apply, with contact boxes for the office.
Classified items describe first class table board in 8th Street NW and nearby, offering good home cooking, clean service, three meals daily at 16 dollars per month, with phone contact. additional requests seek vegetarian board in an office setting with estate terms and box address for responses.
Auction listing at Willard Storage Stables offers horses, carriages, broughams, phaetons, wagons, harness, and saddles from $40 to $100. Items range from passenger coaches to military harness and horse furniture. Goods belong to Washington residents awaiting sale, with viewing on Speedway Stables block near 14th Street and Pa Ave.
An old classified ad offers wallpaper and room papering services with low prices and free samples. It promotes estimates by mail from Jackson and Bowie and mentions a postal offer for true samples and a February price drop. The ad claims the lowest prices with small profits and invites customers to visit or mail for details.
A garbled clipping describes local shoe shine parlors offering quick shines at storefronts along a street avenue. The fragment mentions customers, attendants, and the busy scene of daily service in a busy urban area.
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