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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1912
Page
10
Notices indicate ads are accepted until 11 a.m. for the daily edition and until 10 p.m. for the Sunday Light. The brief notice details the submission cutoff times for classified advertising in the newspaper editions.
A jumble of classified help wanted notices seeks female workers including masseurs, manicurists, hairdressers, sewing helpers, nurses, child care, cooks, housekeepers, and stenographers. Employers list addresses in San Antonio area like Market St, Avenue B, 711 Avenue B, 4223 Light, 410 W Cevallos, and 101 Craig Place.
A collection of classified notices shows multiple individuals seeking work. entries include a male seeking bookkeeping or office work with references, a collector or solicitor for wholesale or retail work, a bilingual young man with Mexico experience open to travel, a middle aged yardman and gardener, a chauffeur seeking driving work, a stenographer or correspondent, another experienced stenographer seeking work for moderate pay, and a five year bookkeeper seeking out of town positions with references.
Female seeking immediate office position with years of business experience and strong references. Stenographer address 1031 S Mesquite St. A refined lady seeks nurse companion or housekeeper work in private family or hotel at 4150 Light.
Classified ads seek several energetic salesmen to sell live propositions in city or country no experience needed Plaza Realty Co contact numbers and address listed Also two experienced specialty salesmen needed for wholesale and retail grocers and hardware dealers with recommendations provide age experience and salary and phone number Marvel Acetylene Generator Co seeks men for Texas with small capital to sell patented generator promising best price and easy sales Topeka Kansas manufacturer listed with contact details.
Classified notices advertise AGENTS WANTED for selling real estate with liberal commissions and no experience required. Also seeks LADY AGENTS to handle face creams and powders with promise of earnings up to $6 daily, at 229 E. Houston room 65 and Grand Opera House building in Transgard San Antonio.
Multiple lost items and notices appear including a dark bay mare branded ZNIE with reward for return to W D Terry San Antonio Texas and various lost items such as collectible cards a pale red Jersey cow rooms for rent and furnished housing ads with prices and locations across San Antonio scattered around street addresses and establishments. The page also lists hotels flats and room rentals including Alamo Plaza Joske's and Gunter Hotel area with prices and contact notes.
Multiple rental notices list private homes offering room and board with meals at varied prices. Properties include 359 E Commerce St, 620 Maverick St, 603 North St, 230 San Pedro Ave, 520 Maverick St, 218 Richmond Ave, 225 Terrell Ave, 312 East Nunez Street, and 343 Blum among others. Also mentions a tuberculosis guest facility near Medina River and Grand Central Hotel with weekly rates.
A dense set of rental notices lists multiple properties in San Antonio area. Entries include seven room and six room cottages, modern conveniences, servants rooms, stables and garages, with rents from 27.50 to 50 dollars monthly. Notable addresses include 430 San Pedro avenue 333 Kads Ave 604 San Pedro and 116 Casino corner Market with agents A. L Bitter and R. H. Wester Co.
Multiple rental listings describe four to eight room cottages and houses in central San Antonio areas. Properties include 816 Lavaca, 925 Carson, 311 Adams, 1605 South Presa near Hot Wells, 1223 Garden, 2158 Presa, and 306 Baltimore Ave with various conveniences. Several offer close proximity to depots and car lines with monthly rents from $6 to $20 and furnished options.
Several furnished houses available for rent including a three room cottage at 301 Newell Ave with lights bath and screening amenities for 20 dollars monthly. A five room fully furnished house at 110 Carey Ave near the Country Club also for rent. A north shore Chicago furnished house for summer use and a large 13 room colonial style home in San Antonio offered by a departing family for six months or a year. Contact details include phone 1843 and inquiries at various streets and avenues.
Classified notes show multiple rental offers including a corner store at 903 East Houston Street for 50 dollars and 905 East Houston Street for 35 dollars. Also available are a Schulers space at 102 West Commerce with rent paid by sign privileges, a two chair barber shop on Main Avenue, and a furnished store with cottage in a prime location offered for rent or sale.
Apartments and flats offered in San Jose with five rooms and furnished options. Listings include 741 E Houston with large southeast gallery at 76 dollars monthly, three and five room flats near Baltimore Avenue and North Street with gas, hot and cold water, and contact by L Page J M Nix and Old phone 6847.
Readable notices show multiple real estate firms seeking listings for rental houses and rooms. Plaza Realty Co and Richey & Casey advertise quick action and up to date services. A separate request seeks one or two single rooms for a woman, clean and modern, under 12 dollars.
Local ads seek coot rags paying three cents per pound delivered to the light office. Others buy second hand motorcycles, repair shoes, offer low-cost shoe work, and provide upholstery and drapery services. Also listed are cash for diamonds and gold, second hand furniture, brass copper lead rubber, and a phone-in repair service for phonographs.
A dense classified page lists misc items for sale and services in Houston area including hats cleaned $1.00 at Dupuy 108 Mast, ice boxes wanted any size, rooms papered $4 up, Italian lessons requested, second hand buzz fans wanted, Wigwam Theatre ads, typewriters for sale or rent with repair and catalog offers, pipe and steam pump sale, fireproof safe cheap, cord wood yard delivery, wall paper sale 6c at Bacon's. Readable names include Dupuy 108 Mast, Flores St, 9248S, 7360 Old phone, Walter Jones, Hoy Lightfoot, Frank Basala, 217 Sycamore, 212 BE Houston St.
An unsigned grocery and hardware style notice lists discounted items at Bacon's on 212 E Houston including mix paint and unredeemed andio trunks and leather suitcases at a quarter of value. San Pedro Loan Co advertises offices on W Commerce and W Houston. Seven secondhand sewing machines and two tailoring machines are offered at under half price as movers head to Chicago. Old phone listed as 1126. Also a Worthy horspower steam engine and a No 6 centrifugal pump available from Fuller Machine Shops on South Alamo Street.
A collage of small ads lists jewelry on easy payments, used goods, tools, parts, and services. Items include glass partitions, safes, furniture deals, a butcher’s outfit for sale, lathes and machinery, live seafood, rice products, luggage, and a horse and buggy with a garden desk. Local merchants and contact details appear throughout.
A wide range of offerings from Alamo Tent & Awning Co to South Park Terrace Greenhouse and Bond Hardware appear, with tent gear, farm supplies, and plants. The ads feature numerous poultry stock sales including Buff Plymouth Rocks, Leghorns, Black Minorcas, and Breeds, plus incubators and setting eggs.
Advertises buying and selling horses mules cows and vehicles plus harness saddles and pianos. Names F A Cocke Marshall Street Upson ranch Joe Villareal and H L Steele among others with various listings including a trotting mare and a registered Jersey bull for service. Also notes one Indian motorcycle for trade and a used four horse power greyhound motorcycle.
Wanted ads invite an intelligent lady with state age and salary expectations to apply at 4168 Light for an interest in Kepley Sample Shoe Co. Also listings seek first class cooks and good girls for housework with liberal wages and a good place to work at 139 Go Nad and 117 Wickes.
Rubber tired delivery wagon and marble and oak private office fixtures offered for sale. Contact Wigwam Theater and Walter Jones for details.
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