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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1906
Page
7
A dense OCR dump shows varied classified items and ads. Entries include job seekers and employment offers, sales pitches for goods and services, real estate mentions, and personnel notices, all with numerous names, addresses, and partial phrases. The reader encounters sparse legible details amid garbled text.
Classified ads seek colored young men for general labor and specific roles in Washington Alexandria and nearby areas. Listings include kitchen work janitorial porter farm hand office help and skilled labor with contact hints and brief personal notes.
Classified ads seek domestic staff and service help in Washington DC area. Listings include female servants, companions, chambermaids, cooks, dressmakers, and stenographers, with locations near 804 17th St NW and Alexandria Virginia. Many require white women, verified references, and day or long term engagements.
A dense, cluttered page of 1900s classified help wanted notices. Listings include dressmaking at home, general housekeeper and colored domestic workers, young ladies for upstairs work, laundresses, seamstresses, nurse companions, stenographers, secretaries, and travel companions. Numerous Alexandria and Washington addresses accompany each job posting.
Numerous listings for furnished and unfurnished rooms in private homes across Northwest Washington. Highlights include front rooms, suites, and single rooms with heat, hot water, and baths. some with board, others by room or floor. prices range from modest to 40 per month for two, with contact details and locations near 13th to 19th Streets and Mass Ave. NW.
A garbled list of furnished rooms for rent across multiple NW and nearby streets. Descriptions include rear and front rooms, heated by hot water or steam, communicating options, baths, shared kitchens, and varying rents from a few dollars weekly to monthly. Several locations mention near Thomas Circle, Capitol area, and proximity to government offices.
Listings describe multiple furnished rooms with private baths and board in Northwest Washington near 13th and 11th streets, with electric light, heat, steam heat, porceain baths, and meals on request. Rates range from five dollars to several dollars weekly, with some transient and some permanent arrangements, several rooms offering single or en suite accommodations with host families or private boards.
Various listings describe furnished and unfurnished rooms for rent in Northwest Washington, many with heat, private baths, and board options. Prospective tenants are offered rooms on 1921 Q St NW and nearby streets, with amenities like steam heat, telephones, bay windows, and access to kitchens. Prices range around $5 to $20 monthly or weekly, with options for single or multiple rooms in private families or apartment buildings.
Classified notices show several room and apartment requests including furnished rooms south exposure near 1503 R I Avenue and 600 S84 addresses, plus housekeeping suites and private-family accommodations. Also listed are personal services, dressmaker and beauty offers, palm readings, and money-to-loan notices with rates and contact boxes.
In DC Supreme Court a commission is appointed to appraise damages to adjacent property caused by grade changes for the Union Station project. A meeting is set for March 1 1906 at 10:30 am at City Hall to hear testimony and determine compensation for affected real property in several blocks and avenues. Owners must file petitions within 60 days after March 1. the act provides that failure to file forfeits rights to damages. Officials named include Chas A Rani George W Os George Spransy and Clerk J R Young.
Public auction to sell the complete furnishings and equipment of the Treasury Lunch and Dining Cafe at 1408 G Street NW. Auctioneer Blan & Co. will offer electric fans, coffee urns, wall racks, counters, tables, chairs, cash register, and other cafe fittings on February 1, 1905 at 30 minutes past noon. Terms of sale by Bowen and Johnson, trustees under a trust deed recorded in Liber 2808.
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