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What does boardinghouse ledger mean?
What does boardinghouse ledger mean?
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Usually: 'boarding house ledger'. This would have been a record of who was staying at a boarding house. A boarding house is a private home, where a paying guest can stay and be provided with meals.
The ledger would have included payments for the room. In some cases, if something was broken by the guest, the cost would be included in the ledger, so that a payment could be made before the guest left.
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Boarding house is an old name for a hotel or a place where people could stay for weeks or months when they came to a new city and did not own a home.
The ledger is the book that had every boarder's name (a person staying at a boarding house is called a boarder), when they arrived and what room they are in, and if they leave, it has that date also.
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- English (US)
Usually: 'boarding house ledger'. This would have been a record of who was staying at a boarding house. A boarding house is a private home, where a paying guest can stay and be provided with meals.
The ledger would have included payments for the room. In some cases, if something was broken by the guest, the cost would be included in the ledger, so that a payment could be made before the guest left.
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