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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1906
Page
7
A large classified row offers varied labor positions and domestic help requests. Listings include competent instructors secretaries janitors watchmen cooks chambermaids and companions with references, addresses and contact notes across Washington area. Many entries emphasize reliability and willingness to start quickly with colored workers and single adults repeatedly referenced.
A crowded classified page offers numerous help-wanted notices for laundresses and domestic workers, including first-class laundress positions for home washing and ironing, at-home work options, and several seamstresses, maids, and stenographers sought by individuals and offices. Also lists rooms for rent and other service positions with addresses and contact hints.
A collage of room ads from a Washington DC newspaper listing numerous for rent signs. Many entries offer furnished rooms with heat, bath, and board options, spread across NW addresses including 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th Streets NW and around Massachusetts and C Street areas. Prices range from five to twenty dollars monthly. some entries note proximity to streetcar lines and private families, with several targeting single men, couples, or students.
A flood of room and board advertisements from multiple addresses in Washington DC and nearby Fort Myer Heights. Listings mention furnished rooms, singles and en suites with private baths, steam heat, electric elevators, and board. Prices range from a few dollars per week to about $20 monthly, with various amenities and proximity notes to business districts and transit.
Listing of multiple room rentals across NW Washington and nearby streets. Ads describe furnished and unfurnished rooms with heat gas bath and other amenities. Some units offer private baths and dining rooms while others mention large bright rooms with near transit access. Prices and terms are described as reasonable with different locations including St NW F St NE Newton St Howard Ave 14th St NW.
Classified notices seek furnished rooms and board in northwest and central districts. Couples and singles offer parlor use, kitchen access, or full room and board with terms and heat included. Several boxes list contact by office box number with monthly rates and proximity to transit or landmarks.
The advertisement highlights the Hotel Stratford at Fourteenth Street and Sheridan with proximity to the fourteenth street car line and both railroad stations, about 14 minutes to Lusinesa center. It touts electric lights, steam heat, beds, a pool room for guests, a large sun parlor, and a heated wall water feature.
Find great bargains in horse drawn vehicles and related gear from Weedington sellers. Listings include one horse brougham, victoria and two horse victoria coupe, hackney cart, trap, governess cart, harness, bridles, and a 3 passenger touring car later priced at 350 dollars and 200 dollars for a runabout. Also ponies and a pony 13 hands stylish and driver ready. See 406 Lat St NW and 657 New York Ave for viewing. details vary by item.
Classified rental ad listing multiple apartment options in Washington DC including The Benedick, Gainesboro area and Oaklands Heights. Describes amenities like water, maid service, elevator, hot water, telephones, dumping, and options from 2 to 8 rooms. Mentions agents on premises and various rents from $30 to $70 monthly styles. Includes money to loan and sale listings for real estate nearby.
Modern Homes in Porret Parces Washington area advertise popular Columbia Heights residences. Listings feature 10 to 18 rooms, hot water heat, multiple baths, large lots, and prime northwest locations near Dupont Circle and Massachusetts Avenue. Prices range from a few thousand to over thirteen thousand dollars, with multiple stone and brick structures and new flats and apartments offered by realty firms Martin Bros and Stone & Fairfax.
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