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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1906
Page
30
An extensive, noisy classified notice fragment lists domestic guilds, servant placement, and various job requests. Mentions Washington Domestic Guild at 804 17th Street NW, with numerous terse ads for waitstaff, stewards, clerks, writers, and general help. Includes requests for references, experience, and contact box numbers.
A dense listing of job notices seeks Chambermaids, cooks, laundresses, housework helpers, companions, nurses, and secretaries. Positions advertise early 20th century urban roles for colored and white women, including residences, apartments, and offices, with box numbers and office references. Wages and hours vary. many ads request refs or reliable character.
A dense, mixed list of domestic help notices and room rental offers from Washington area classifieds. Includes seamstresses seeking home work, stenographers, waitresses, and maids, plus furnished room and apartment advertisements with pricing and locations around Dupont Circle, Mass Avenue, and nearby streets. Contains multiple names of streets and contact references.
Numerous listings describe large first floor rooms with hot and cold water, and many second floor communicating rooms with heat and gas. Prices range from 5 to 19 dollars monthly. several include bath, board, or proximity to Capitol and streetcar lines. Listings cite private families and shared flats in northwest and nearby avenues with various amenities.
Numerous listings for rooms with private baths, steam heat, and meals in central Washington DC neighborhoods near Dupont Circle, Capitol, and Library. Offers include single and double rooms, suites, private families, and transient accommodations with moderate weekly rates and quiet, refined homes.
Descriptive classified listing of numerous rooms for rent in NW Washington near Dupont Circle and 14th Street. Notes front and back room details: board, heating, private or shared baths, southern exposure, and varying monthly prices from modest to first class. Includes addresses such as 14th Street NW and G Street NW with references to Willard area and nearby hotels.
A garbled 1920s classified page lists multiple room rentals and board offers. Items include four furnished rooms near Framing Franklin, a dining room in first-class boarding house, a comfortable room near bath, and room with board for two. Various boxes reference exchange contact methods and prices, with several entries seeking rooms in exchange for meals or lodging. The notices originate from a central office address and include WANTED ads from individuals such as a young business man and a gentleman and wife seeking furnished and heated rooms with prompt occupancy.
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