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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1913
Page
3
A dense period advertisement page lists numerous help wanted notices. Entries cover salespersons, stenographers, violists, wait staff, watchmen, houseworkers, and general labor, with various preferences including race, age, and location.
An assortment of job listings and housework opportunities appears, including assistants, nurses, clerical help, and various domestic positions. Entries mention duties such as housekeeping, child care, cooking, dressmaking, and office tasks with partial addresses and contact hints.
A dense running list of help wanted notices from a 1940s style classifieds page. It includes numerous positions for nurses, maids, seamstresses, milliners, housework, waiting staff, and laundry workers, with names, addresses, and contact hints scattered across the entries. Names like Mrs. Berry and various street addresses appear repeatedly, signaling a town-wide domestic help market.
Numerous small ads seek laundresses and house cleaning by the day or at home. Entries specify colored or neat girls and first class laundresses, with addresses across Washington area and references. Variations include nursing, ironing, and private family work, often with favorable refs.
Numerous listings describe furnished rooms for rent across Northwest Washington near 18th Street and Massachusetts Avenue. Advertisements detail front and back rooms with baths, kitches, heat, hot water, and private families. Prices range from about $1.25 to $12 weekly, with summer rates noted and various properties offering single and double rooms, some with photos or porches and street-facing or interior locations. Listings emphasize quiet homes, proximity to car lines, and private housekeeping arrangements.
A dense catalog of furnished rooms for rent across Washington areas NW and nearby, detailing front rooms, communicating options, private baths, and southern exposures. Rates range from about 8 to 18 dollars monthly with various amenities including phones and modern conveniences. Listings specify private families, weekly summer rates, and proximity to landmarks, hotels, and streets like Chestnut, 18th, 7th, and Euclid.
Classified notice lists numerous furnished rooms for rent across Washington DC areas including NW and NE sections. Descriptions mention hot water heat, private baths, southern exposure, telephones, and proximity to Capitol, Library, and car lines with varied rates and terms for singles, couples, or two persons.
Numerous listings offer front rooms with bath and private or shared board in NW district near Capitol. Rates range from about $4 to $6 per week or month, with features such as running water, gas, and hardwood floors. Several rooms advertise meals or full board from private families, some with bath, hot water, and nearby transportation.
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