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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1912
Page
14
Classified notices from a Texas city page listing multiple employment opportunities. Positions include assistants, salesmen, bakers, drivers, clerks, and carpenters with requirements, pay hints, and contact details across Austin San Antonio and surrounding towns.
A jumble of classified advertisement fragments seeks female staff for beauty and sewing roles, room addresses in Houston and Baltimore areas, and home shelter offers. Salvation Home invites calls for friendship. Gospel Army and Cook Supply Co list help and distribution options.
A long list of job ads from San Antonio with roles for cooks maids salesgirls nurses solicitors and general housework. Many entries specify white or local applicants and note wages hours and contact rooms at hotels avenues and streets. The notices emphasize female employment warm references and immediate openings.
A collection of help wanted notices including a male seeking collector or solicitor work with multilingual skills and references, a German English Spanish speaker willing to relocate, a shoe sales opportunity, a wholesale grocery position seeker, a stenographer or correspondent, a bookkeeper seeking out of town work, an accountant with banking and manufacturing experience, a driver for a dairy, and a young man fluent in multiple languages seeking clerical and correspondence duties with references.
A collection of classified notices from a historic paper shows multiple job seekers. Women seek office work stenography nursing companionship and housekeeper roles with references and contact details in Mesquite Light avenues and phone numbers.
Classified ads seek energetic salesmen for city and country work no experience needed. Plaza Realty Co lists 333 Alamo Plaza phone 3544. Also two experienced specialty salesmen wanted by a large manufacturer to sell to grocers and hardware dealers with good references. Marvel Acetylene Generator Co seeks men in Texas with small capital. Topeka Kansas. Pardridge's Liquid Court Plaster Co offers exclusive territory with commission only in Detroit Michigan.
Agents wanted for top advertised real estate deal with liberal commissions and no experience required. Inquire H. J. Benson at Grand Opera House building. Also wanted lady agents for face creams and powders earning about 36 per day, apply at 229 E. Houston, room 6.
Various lost items posted include a black left hand glove on Crockett Street near Grand office house with a reward offered. A white fox terrier two months old with left eye marked and a brown spotted fox terrier with a 204 Willita Street collar, rewards promised. A Jersey cow missing with knot on its front, return details and names provided. A gold watch with initials J M B and date notes, reward offered for return to L C Houk, 108 Avenue C.
A white Angora cat with blue eyes is lost or stray with a reward for return to 117 Wicks. A small horse, 16 hands, is lost or stray with Liberal reward for return to 1405 N Flores. A Greek fraternity pin missing with name on back can be returned to 609 South Presa or call 4284 old phone for reward. A brooch shaped like a wishbone with pearls and a diamond is lost between 8 Alamo St and 1700 block on Presa St, return to 7704 S Alamo St for reward.
A roundup of lodging ads cites Fairmount Hotel Hutchins La Casa and other properties offering furnished rooms with board. Listings include Medina river guest farm not a sanitarium, Grand Central Hotel rates, and multiple street addresses such as 369 E Commerce St 205 Garden St 1410 W Commerce St 312 East Nurva and 603 North St with dining options and meal tickets.
Seven room houses with bath and modern conveniences on San Pedro Avenue and Adams Street. Listings include 4 and 8 room houses on Wyoming Flores and Lavaca streets, car line access, large lots, gardens, and servant quarters. Prices range from 6 to 40 dollars monthly with various contact notes.
For rent notices include a three room cottage at 301 Newell Ave with electric lights bath city water screens and no invalids asking $20 monthly. Another four room fully furnished at 110 Carey Ave near Country club inquires 2046 River Ave. North Shore Chicago summer rentals via Mrs N S Cass 1619 Farwell Ave Rogers Park. One deluxe thirteen room colonial style furnished house in San Antonio available six months or year ring old phone 1843. Three room furnished cottage near Harlandale hot sulfur wells old phone 7744.
Corner store at 9083 East Houston Street listed for $50 and 905 East Houston Street for $35. Also available a fine new store with a cottage, furnished in a prime location or could be sold at a bargain. Old phone 5091.
Large office available in the Moore building with use of furnished reception room, typewriter, stenographer, bookkeeper and phones. Right party can get reasonable terms. Apply 602 Moore Building.
Real estate classified notes show multiple rental options in San Jose and nearby towns. Listings include five room apartments at 741 E Houston with furnishings, modern furnished and unfurnished flats near Baltimore Ave, well furnished three room flats and two bedroom units at 702 Brookly Ave, Geneva Apartments at 317 East Commerce with gas range and hot water, and a four room housekeeping apartment at 701 Avenue with modern conveniences. Contacts include H L Page J M Nix and Ula with local phone numbers.
Multiple rental notices announced by Plaza Realty Co and Richey & Causey. Vacant furnished and unfurnished cottages and houses sought by landlords and tenants, including amenities and timing details.
WANTED large clean white cotton rags, pay three cents per pound delivered to the light office. WANTED second hand motorcycle must be a bargain. W. D. Kenedy, 1118 Cherry 31. WANTED to buy sacks of beans corn oats old brass copper lead rubber. Highest cash prices. 310 South 81. WANTED to buy all kinds of second hand furniture and stoves. Also repair furniture in homes. Old phone 7214 l, new phone 1261.
A vintage page lists repair and buying ads: Champion Artistic Shoe Repairing Co on 111 W Houston St offers quick repair service with delivery and guaranteed work, while Household Furniture Co seeks upholstery and drapery jobs at 214 216 West Commerce St. Other notices call for diamond and gold buyers including Alamo Jewelry Co at 315 Alamo Plaza and William N Capurro jeweler on East Houston St. Joseph J Sweeney, lawyer and notary, operates at 502% E Houston St.
Classified brief lists hats cleaned for one dollar at Dupuy near 10% East Houston. Displays Walter Jones sign for a Wigwam Theatre listing. Includes wanted to buy second hand buzz fans in good condition and a cheap phonograph in good condition with New phone 2507.
Mixed paint for sale seven secondhand family sewing machines two tailoring machines at less than half values five to fifteen dollars fully equipped fine running machines must sell moving to Chicago Old phone 1120 2411 Monterey St J HM Strickland also for sale one forty horsepower steam engine and one No 6 centrifugal pump Fuller Machine shops 61v South Alamo street for sale or rent butcher's outfit almost new bargain sold in next few days 1028 Nolan street for sale screw cutting lathe 9 inch swing Champion bhrower 135 pound anvil emery grinder cheap for quick sale Old phone 1126 2411 Monterey St Mattings sell cash Se/KCLAS week Worth 2 and 2 60 likely made up for 1 San Pedro Loan Co 725-727 West Commerce and 113 West Houston
Alamo Tent & Awning Co proprietor William Lorenzen offers full weight goods including awnings and porch curtains. Also advertised are finest tomatoes egg pepper bedding plants palms evergreens roses cut flowers and floral designs from South Park Terrace Greenhouse with old phone 5091.
A retro classified page itemizes removal sale discounts on house paint and tools at Bond Hardware 619 Military Plaza with low prices. Multiple other sale notices follow for tents, soda fountains, cameras, pool tables, artificial pond lilies, and second-hand shoes, all from local sellers including Max Karotkin 318 West Commerce and J. C. Cannon 650 Main Ave.
A dense catalog of poultry breeders and stock listings. Includes Buffalo Plymouth Rocks Leghorns and Rhode Island Red eggs for sale with varied prices from $1 to $7.60 per hundred, baby chicks, and incubators. Multiple breeders named with addresses and phones across Ohio Texas and New Braunfels. Also feeders and poultry foods advertised.
Classified notices show multiple ads for horses mules cows and vehicles. Listings include a trotting mare a Jersey cow a Shetiland pony and a bay horse with harness plus a Rudolph mahogany and ebony upright piano for sale. Prices range from 1 to 200 dollars and locations include Garden Street Cincinnati Avenue and Harrison Street with contact numbers and old phone listings. Local sellers include F A Cocke H L Steele J H Covington and various addresses.
Mrs Gracie C Ramsey advertises furnished and unfurnished homes for rent at multiple Texas addresses including 3707 South Presa and 118 Woodlief. It promotes several six to seven room houses with features like fireplaces, disappearing beds, hardwood floors, and close to transportation, inviting tenants and offering assistance locating suitable properties.
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