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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1905
Page
18
Classified notices detail steno positions, bookkeeping, tailoring, cleaning and pressing, begging for trustworthy individuals. Listings show ages, colors, and shifts, with addresses in Breckland DC and other locales. Many entries request references, wages, and start times, highlighting job variety and local manpower needs.
A dense OCR page lists multiple colored women offering chambermaid, cleaning, cooking, laundry, and companion services in private homes and offices. It includes locations such as 3d St NW, 119 Chamber, 1214 Ave, and addresses in Washington DC areas, with notes on experience, reliability, and hourly or daily wages. Many entries emphasize respectable character, private employment, and day or live-in work.
Increasingly detailed classified notices show numerous laundress offerings by colored women in Washington DC area addresses on Gordon Avenue and nearby streets. Items advertise washing, ironing, starching, taking work at home, or bringing work to the home with many entries listing neighborhood blocks and cross streets.
Many furnished and unfurnished rooms for rent in NW and SW Washington. Options include front parlors, hall rooms, and single rooms with heat, gas, bath, and some with board. Prices range from a few dollars per week to about $17 per month, with multiple addresses on 7th, 8th, 9th, L, K, and F streets NW and nearby avenues.
Multiple listings for furnished rooms across NW DC with options including private baths, heat, gas, and board. Addresses span 4th to 20th Streets NW, plus New Jersey and Massachusetts avenues. Many front and back parlor rooms, some with private families or single rooms, weekly or monthly terms, and various conveniences.
Dense list of furnished and unfurnished rooms for rent with board or without, detailing locations on 0a STRENT NORTHWEST and multiple NW streets, many with private baths, elevator access, and modern conveniences. Entries include prices from $3 to $12 per week or month, rooms for single or two occupants, and references to near Grafton Hotel, Capitol, and Dupont Circle areas.
A vintage classified listing describes numerous unfurnished rooms for rent in the Washington DC area NW, with options including rooms with heat, light, and housekeeping, some with board. It also notes entire floors and suites for rent at several addresses, plus a few requests for rooms with specific terms and nearby amenities.
A sprawling late 19th or early 20th century classified section advertises high cash offers for worn garments and various personal services. Names like W Rice and J Tarshes appear alongside numerous agencies and readers are urged to mail or call for transactions. It also lists fortune tellers and travel ads in a dense, ad-filled page.
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