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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1906
Page
9
Partial OCR text lists a Washington based guild and servants. The notice appears to advertise services with contact at Telentone Main 145 and locations described as two doors above a landmark. The readable fragments indicate a guild recruitment or listing context.
Numerous small ads seek a refined woman for hotel or private service including chambermaid waitress and nurse. other listings seek companions, light housework, dressmaking, laundering, and general help with various addresses and references. Includes colored workers and multiple city locations and contact boxes.
Classified notices offer positions and housing for waitresses, companions, chambermaids, parlor maids, and general servant work by young women. Entries include address options, home hiring examples, and numerous furnished room rental listings around Northwest DC with prices, heating, and near car lines.
A dense classified page lists unfurnished rooms for light housekeeping across multiple streets and floors, including near Capital and Washington Circle. Several 2nd and 3rd floor front rooms, parlor suites, and entire floors offer rates from $7 to $25 monthly with heat and gas. Also advertises a four to five room apartment building Seward at 4th Street and Pa Avenue with rents from $40 to $75 weekly, plus a first floor rental for a physician or dentist and a Realty Broker listing.
A long list of furnished rooms for rent in NW Washington offering heat, baths and private family settings. Ads describe front and back rooms, single or en suite, with or without board, in private houses and apartment-like houses near 27th Street, Mass Ave, and nearby avenues. Prices range from moderate to $450 for larger front rooms. several listings specify steam heat and gas, proximity to car lines, and private or shared bath facilities.
A dense, ad-laden listing of rooms and suites for rent across Northwest and nearby areas. Many addresses on 14th, 13th, 18th, 1st, and K streets NW, plus nearby Ohio area listings. Features include steam heat, private baths, porcelain baths, board options, and proximity to streetcars and business centers. Read as a classified housing roundup with multiple rooms, suites, and boards offered by various landlords and properties.
Real estate ads list numerous houses and investment properties in Northwest and Georgetown areas. Highlights include a stone front home with hot water heat near 18th Street, 10 rooms on one floor, and others with 11 rooms, large cellars, and modern plumbing. Several properties offer terms with cash down and long balances, with locations near 14th and Pa avenues, Washington Circle, and Dupont Circle. Also includes investment flats, two and six room rentals, and offices for rent in prime downtown blocks.
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