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A collage of old time help wanted notices listing porters, printers, secretaries, and clerks. Names and locations mix with incomplete phrases indicating jobs, ages, duties, and addresses.
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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1906
Page
38
A collage of old time help wanted notices listing porters, printers, secretaries, and clerks. Names and locations mix with incomplete phrases indicating jobs, ages, duties, and addresses.
A dense block of 1920s classified ads seeks female help including maids, cooks, seamstresses, chambermaids, and governesses. Listings specify ages, addresses in Washington DC areas like 11th St NW and Conn Ave, with phone references and box numbers. Jobs promise first class references, steady hours, and varied domestic duties across households and hotels.
Classified notices advertise stenographers and typewriters by young women with experience and references, plus waitstaff and seamstresses for private homes and offices. Rentals seek rooms, front and rear, in furnished or unfurnished options near 12th Street NW and downtown DC, with prices from weekly to monthly and various amenities.
A classified listing of numerous furnished rooms for rent in NW Washington near 20th Street, 14th Street, and other addresses. Offers include single rooms, front parlor suites, rooms with board, steam heat, and private baths. Prices range from about $5 to $15 monthly with options for housekeeping and private families.
Multiple listings advertise furnished and unfurnished rooms with board in Northwest Washington near 14th Street, with various amenities including steam heat porcelain baths and elevator. Prices range around four to five dollars weekly, with selective examples near the Government Printing Office and Union Station.
A long classified page lists numerous room and board offers in Northwest Washington and nearby areas. Advertisements describe furnished and unfurnished second floor and top floor rooms with baths, kitchens, heat, gas, and convenient locations near streets such as 23rd Street NW, Vermont Avenue, and Mass Avenue. Several ads request light housekeeping, some allow children, and terms range from room only to full board with varying rents. Several entries mention proximity to public transit and private families seeking reliable tenants.
A dense OCR of property ads and rentals for Washington area apartments houses and stores. Listings include various NW and NE addresses, apartment buildings such as The Regina The Stoddert The Maury and The Ontario with rents from 15 to 70 monthly, plus numerous single family homes and stores with prices and room counts. Credits Fisher Co real estate office notes and multiple agents with addresses and contact lines.
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