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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1907
Page
23
A wide run of situation wanted ads seek positions for dressmakers, laundresses, nurses, maids, light housework, and child care. Women target private families, with varied wages and locations across Washington neighborhoods and embassies.
A cluttered classified listing describes multiple rooms for rent in Washington DC areas near White House War Department and Congress buildings. Options include furnished and unfurnished rooms with board, private families, central heating, bay windows, and proximity to downtown landmarks. prices range from $5 to $25 per week, with several single or double occupancy options and transit-friendly locations.
Numerous listings for fully furnished rooms in private homes and apartment houses across Northwest and Northeast Washington. Options include front parlors, second floor rooms, with steam heat, hot water, baths, telephones, and board. Prices range from about 5 to 15 dollars per week or month, with various amenities and proximity to car lines and departments. Listings specify male or female tenants, singles or couples, and sometimes require references or board.
A dense ad row listing numerous furnished and unfurnished rooms for rent in Northwest and nearby DC areas. Many properties offer board, heat, and baths with varying prices, private families, and proximity to streetcar lines.
A long list of rental offers and requests across Washington DC neighborhoods. Furnished and unfurnished rooms in multiple streets including 12th, 7th, Irving, Willard, Mount Pleasant, and surrounding zones. Various amenities noted: heat gas bath electricity hot water and private baths. Some exchanges offered with meals or language lessons. Numerous box ads request rooms for single or couple occupancy with or without private baths.
Classified listing describes several apartment options including a two room with bath at The Partner in Dorchester Dorchester Corner, a two room with cabinet kitchen at 1737 Retnw near Hert seetodes, and a second‑story front room with board at 1309 Corcoran Street. Terms, janitor service, and utilities noted.
The ad lists multiple rental offers near Dupont Circle with rooms and baths, including hot water heat, stoves, and porches. Prices range around $37.40 and $456 monthly, with properties featuring rear yards and front porches. A family seeks to rent a house to adults from March to October, location in NW near a specific portion, nominal rent, box ads.
A list of high and middle class houses for sale or rent in the District of Columbia offered by William Corcoran Sill at 1502 H Street NW. Best home near Capitol on East Capitol Street near the Congressional Library and Capitol features a 26 by 100 feet lot, four stories, 13 rooms, tiled baths, large pantry, brick front, front and rear stairways, hot water heating. desirable for a physician family.
Mr and Mrs Andrew B Madison of 101T Euclid St NW seek to adopt James Burt Madison born February 13 1906 left with them October 13 1906 The petition in District Supreme Court shows they were married June 2 1908 and that the child was left by a woman named Adelaide Reed with a false address in Rosslyn Virginia They were allowed to care for him and now seek to adopt him permanently
Wallace Hatch, secretary of the committee on the prevention of consumption, lectured Tuesday afternoon at Miss Madeira's school 1226 Nineteenth Street NW, detailing the tuberculosis campaign and the health housing push for poorer communities. A similar talk was given last evening at Foundry M. Church to members and friends.
U S Grant Circle Ladies of the G A R held a Lincoln birthday program at their hall on Tuesday night. Past Commander Bingham spoke on Lincoln's life from boyhood to grave. Remarks were offered by Past Commander King Col Abbott and others, followed by music and poetry.
Multiple legal notices in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia concern condemnation of land for public reservations at Sixteenth Street and Columb Road, and at the intersection of Sixteenth Street with Piney Branch Road, plus probate for the estate of Amana D. Allen and a divorce action Martha E. Boswell v William L. Boswell. Notices detail court orders for appearance, jury impanelment, publication dates, and service of process, with deadlines in February and March 1907.
Health Officer W. C. Woodward to Commissioners reports 156 deaths in the last week, up from 118, with 103 white and 53 colored. Consumption leads with 24 cases, followed by heart disease, kidney disease, pneumonia and diphtheria trends. typhoid down slightly. Births total 126, mostly colored, with 450 noted in the 1906 period.
Two Erie Railroad employees died instantly in a February 13 explosion in the Jersey City yards. A tank used to store illuminating gas for passenger coaches exploded on a car as a work crew labored nearby, sending fragments and bodies about thirty feet. A second item notes Howard University president Thirkield addressing law alumni on February 14 at True Reformers Hall.
The document lists numerous cases across the Court of Appeals, Equity Courts, Circuit Courts, Criminal Courts, Bankruptcy and Probate Court with names such as Davia va Davis, Moore, Pytell, Padcock, Peacock, Harrison, May, and Lane. It notes hearings, submissions, divorces, trustees to sell, and adjournments, reflecting a busy February docket.
Acadia transfers show Charley W Atkinson to Arthur C Beach and Katherine Beech to Arthur C. Jacob P Clark to James T Bherrier. Allen C Clark to Wilbur F Nash. Daniele to A M Daniels Jr. Daniels and Emme V Castels parts in Howgate subdivision. Charles T Hendler and Whitler Kenyon trustees to John B Buckler. William R Hutton to Mary Hutton with partial sublot interests. Pinehurst Company to Jonona Jeffery. Samuel W Pickford et al to Walter B Aley. Nimble Pratt to Mary Ingram. Aldrich C Wiley to Mito B Trotter. FAnn Heirs Wardvisn to Charlie. all with various sums and lots subject to covenants.
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