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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1911
Page
4
A cluttered classified mix seeks second hand clothing, mirrors, a guitar, a bungalow, and various small items. Multiple ads offer to buy or exchange goods including lamps, ranges, bicycles, and a piano. Contacts include Box numbers and local streets in Washington area.
A lettered notice seeks summer positions including housemaid, butler, chauffeur, laundress, and horseman, with several households offering caretaker and boarding roles. Listings invite applicants and note references, locations in city or country estates, and varied housekeeping duties.
A cluttered page offers male applicants for assistant bookkeeper clerk porter bellman and other chamber jobs. Entries list ages, locations such as 213 8th St and 608 Flaave 4 B, with notes on experience, references, languages, and willingness to work at hotels or seashore resorts.
Classified help wanted notices show many entries seeking colored and white workers for chauffeur, janitorial, clerical, hotel, and domestic roles. Listings emphasize references, reliability, and willingness to work varied shifts across private families, hotels, and businesses.
A dense late 19th or early 20th century style advertisement listing numerous help wanted notices. Positions include waiters, chambermaids, cooks, watchmen, switchboard operators, clerks, drivers, and attendants. Many entries specify race and color of applicants, ages, and locations around Washington DC.
Series of help wanted notices from a historic paper listing female stenographers and typists with varying experience, wages, and locations across Washington DC areas, including Brooklend and Columbia Road. Also find housekeepers, cleaners, laundresses, and private-family workers offered by young, colored, or white women with contact addresses and hours.
Various furnished rooms for rent around Cumberland Thomas Circle and nearby streets. Listings include front and second floor rooms, some with baths, kitchens, or separate porches, suitable for one or two men, with weekly or monthly rates and contact details. Also ads for housework, nursing, dressmaking, and employment services.
A long OCR list of rental rooms and board options in Washington DC neighborhoods. It mentions furnished and unfurnished rooms, baths, porches, and heat. several addresses in NW and NE with private families offering rooms, some with board, summer rates, and car line proximity. terms vary from 8 to 22 dollars per week or month, with many single or double rooms and some for couples or gentlemen.
A string of rental listings across NW and SW Washington describing furnished rooms for gentlemen or singles. Properties include first and second floor front rooms, bay window rooms, and rooms with private or shared baths, prices ranging from four to nineteen dollars weekly or monthly, with notes on location near 12th Street NW Grant Place and nearby avenues, some with porches, verandas, or modernizations.
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