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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1914
Page
4
Miscellaneous ads seek scales, electric iron, piano lessons, furniture, planters, and legal texts. Listings include contact notes with telephone prefixes and partial addresses. several items mention storage, shipping, or purchase of used goods and services.
Situations wanted listing for a butler and a handyman couple by a private family with references. Also a maid by a man and wife, janitor by a colored couple with a boy, addresses in Washington area and a white couple seeking to manage a small apartment for quarters. References included.
Classified style notice listing multiple job seekers by gender and race offering services from clerical to trades, hotel, bakery, chauffeur, cook, dishwasher, and houseman. Includes addresses and contact hints for boarding or employment, with notes on specific work preferences and hours.
A dense, OCR noisy catalog of job advertisements and seeker's notes listing positions by color and race, with roles from janitor and barber to stenographer and gardener. It includes housing cleaning, waitstaff, drivers, interpreters, and nurses, with ages, addresses, and partial contact cues, reflecting era norms.
A dense column lists dozens of help wanted notices for housework and related domestic roles. Many entries specify race and age, offering positions as housekeepers, cooks, chambermaids, nurses, and day laborers in private homes and small establishments. Locations include addresses such as 1415 Columbia St and 1700 blocks in Northwest, with wages implied by monthly or daily terms.
A column of laundry advertisements lists numerous women offering washing at home or by the day, with specifics for lace curtain laundering, dress washing, and general laundry work. Addresses span streets such as Detrees, Woost, Linceo, K, 6th, 24th, and more, noting first class or colored workers, day or week rates, and references.
Large ledger of rental notices across Washington DC with numerous listings. Rooms advertised as furnished or unfurnished, some with heat, bath, or private entrance. Various streets and neighborhoods show private families, singles, or gentlemen only, many with southern exposure and proximity to buses or transit. prices range from low to moderate monthly rates.
Numerous listings describe furnished and unfurnished rooms in NW DC near 12th 13th and Clifton with private baths, hot water heat and shared facilities. Ads include front and corner rooms at the Kensington Desoto Valois and other addresses with terms for single gentlemen or private families, various rents, and proximity to mass avenue Capitol Hill and Thomas Circle.
A dense OCR of northwest listings describes multiple furnished rooms for rent, with private baths, heating, board options, and references. Advertisements mention sleeping porches, southern exposure, and proximity to transit lines, targeting single men and couples seeking low to moderate rates in private homes.
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