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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1912
Page
14
Rates for classified ads are listed per word per insertion with volume discounts. Monthly rates apply, minimum charge $2.25. no Sunday extra. ads must be in writing for indefinite runs. telephone orders not accepted for stop notices. stop orders require written instruction and a receipt.
Elmore L. Richey died in San Antonio Texas on April 2 1912 at 315 am aged 76 years 2 days Funeral will be held from the late residence 353 Castro at 230 o clock Wednesday
A collage of old classifieds offers male assistants for manager roles in live towns with pay and advancement. Also positions for box nailers, auto school attendees, shorthand students, shop and drug store helpers, salesmen, dairy hands, cooks, and boys with wheels. Various firms list locations in San Antonio, Fort Worth, Boerne, and Austin.
A collage of help wanted notices seeks female workers and caregivers. Listings include beauty staff, candy factory workers, Salvation Army rescue home calls, sewing and stenography posts, domestic duties, and a manager for a hairdressing department at a bath house, with various contact details.
SITUATION WANTED MALE seeks collector or solicitor position for wholesale or retail firm. Honest and reliable with references, address 7834 Light. Young man fluent in German English and Spanish with 7 years in Mexico seeking work in labor and office duties, willing to relocate. Address 4137 Light. Woman in San Antonio seeks sample room visit at Sour building Alamo plaza. Kepley Sample Shoe Co offers $5 shoes at $2.50 in upstairs store.
Classified list of furnished and unfurnished rooms for rent with locations 1026 Main Ave 214 Daniel St 111 Fannin 618 Burnet St 601 South St 300 North St 415 Pecan 326 Omaha and other addresses. Descriptions include private entrances hot baths private baths shared facilities and nearby car lines. Some entries note rates from $8 per month and mention phone numbers or old phones for contact. Also includes a brief listing seeking an accountant and a general office position with experience in banking and manufacturing.
Readers scanned a page of situation wanted notices. Entries include a female seeking an office stenographer position, a refined lady seeking nursing or housekeeper work, a stenographer seeking immediate employment, and multiple rental listings for furnished and unfurnished rooms near Joske's with light housekeeping options and old telephone numbers.
A flood of rental notices across San Antonio listings. Properties include six to eight room cottages and modern four room houses with services like baths, electric lights and gas. Locations span Bowie Street to Goliad Street and downtown blocks near depots, libraries, and car lines.
Local shop Ba con's at 212 E. Houston St slashes hat cleaning and wallpaper prices from 10, 15, and 20 cents to 6 cents. The ad highlights the bargain basement sale and urges quick visits.
Unredeemed items and samples offered at low prices from Bacon's 212 E Houston St and San Pedro Loan main office 726 727 W Commerce St and 113 W Houston St. Seven secondhand sewing machines and two tailoring machines priced under half value, moving to Chicago. Also a forty horsepower steam engine and a No 6 centrifugal pump from Fuller Machine Shops 610 S Alamo St.
Numerous notices advertise eggs, stock, and feed from multiple sellers. Names include Tompkins strain eggs in Nolan street, HaAs Rice Co in West Houston, Slane’s White Plymouth Rocks address 1008 East Commerce, H. S. Affleck at 203 Martin street, C. McGarity at 530 Agarita avenue, Jacob Brandt at 1150 Roosevelt avenue, Louis H. Scholl Poultry Yards in New Braunfels, and The Select Market on Avenue C. Also offered are incubator lots, blue ribbon birds, and live or dressed poultry delivery with reasonable prices. A stenographer seeks a position.
Classified notices seek energetic salesmen for live propositions and high class specialty lines. Positions include general sales, specialty lines for grocers and hardware dealers, and a side independent line on commission. Addresses and phone numbers provided for responses.
Advert offering liberal commissions for men and women to market a new selling system by Transgard in San Antonio. No experience needed. Inquiries to H. J. Benson at the Grand Opera House Building. Also seeking lady agents to sell face creams and powders with earnings around six dollars daily, apply at 229 B Houston, room 6.
Lost found or stray notice lists furnished room options with light housekeeping and modern conveniences. Old phone 1467 notes 616 North Flores and Mrs Rod g ers at 628 Avenue B for applications. includes single or en suite rooms, hot and cold water, yard, and proximity to services.
A collage of ads offers furnished houses and rooms for rent in San Antonio with details on locations such as 301 Newell Ave 113 N Flores 412 Dallas St and 111 West Quincey St. Items include three room cottages one and two room flats with utilities gas electricity baths and private entrances. Also sales on furniture fixtures and poultry stock from local suppliers and breeders.
For rent business properties at 903 East Houston Street corner store 50 dollars and 905 East Houston Street 35 dollars. A complete meat market on a corner now doing good business apply 239 Nacogdoches. Schulers Sign Company space at 102 West Commerce rent with sign privileges. Two chair barber shop for rent on Main Avenue established five years inquire L Goldman 409 Main Plaza. A fine new store with cottage furnished in prime location may rent or sell. old phone 5091.
A scattered classified listing offers items from a 9-inch screw cutting lathe and tools to animals and live seafood. Includes Hoosier engines, moving picture film, shipping crate goods, fresh seafood, poultry, poultry stock, pigeons, and domestic ads for apartments and tin roof repairs. Also notes San Jose Apartments 741 E Houston and 116 Ninth Street for contact.
Live stock and furnished rooms for light housekeeping three blocks from Joske's at 403 Water St. Modern flats with three and five rooms available furnished or unfurnished near Baltimore Ave. Contact J. M. Nix at phone 4646.
A compilation of reward notices for missing items including a gold monogram pen initials M D returned to Mannie Deutsch, a pale red jersey cow, a cream serge coat, a watch with monogram J M B, a chain and locket, a Shetland pony, a white fox terrier, a blue mare, and a Knights Templar watch, with various contact addresses and reward offers.
For rent neatly furnished homelike rooms with bath and telephone rates two sixty and three dollars weekly two blocks from Joske's at 304 South Alamo. The Oliver Cafeteria and Delicatessen opposite Joske's sells cooked meats and pastries to take home. Beautiful furnished housekeeping apartment four rooms modern conveniences at 701 Ave C Nick now furnished flats apply 306 North St old phone 6847 Gas hot and cold water tents and camping outfits Alamo Tent and Awning Co William Lorenzen proprietor 215 Avenue D. All goods full weight.
A San Antonio paper column lists rental Wants and offers with realty firms PLAZA REALTY CO and Hickey & Casey, plus lodging and room board options at multiple hotels and flats. Also items for sale including farm animals, vehicles, hardware, and a government tents sale by Max Karotkin.
Old classified ads list multiple rental options across San Pedro Avenue Liveoak Soledad and surrounding streets. Items include furnished upstairs front rooms at two dollars per week, seven room cottages with modern conveniences at various addresses and prices, plus hotel rooms and a large modern home option.
A dense mix of wants and sales ranges from rag, bicycle, and motor cycle purchases to shoe repair and fur niture work. Listings advertise farms, cows, chickens, eggs, and livestock plus pianos, uprights, and a Ste inway, with prices and contact details across San Antonio area addresses and phones.
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