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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1912
Page
18
Rates for classified ads include per word charges for single and multiple insertions with monthly rates and a minimum charge. Ads under 15 words counted as 15. The paper reserves right to reject copy. telephone orders accepted only during stated hours. stop orders must be in writing.
Classified listings solicit assistants, sales workers, yardmen and solicitors in Austin and surrounding towns. Positions include assistant managers, box nailers, insurance workers, a butcher shop helper, an advertising solicitor under 26, and general sales roles with pay and advancement prospects. Also requests for youths for print press program and a home helper for a boy.
A clutter of 1920s style help wanted and domestic notices. Listings seek female cooks, houseworkers, a manicurist, hairdresser, nurse girl, washer and ironer, and a singer, with various old phone references and home placements. Some notices invite Salvation Army or Gospel Army help and warn of acceptable backgrounds.
A string of classified notices from a late issue listing multiple applicants seeking work. The ads show men offering skills in bookkeeping accounting stenography driving and office work. Languages include German French Spanish and English with international work willingness.
Situation wanted note seeks a reward for a stray horse of about 16 hands described as small and light in color. Also offering a liberal reward for a Greek fraternity pin with name on the back returned to 609 South Presa. Additional notices advertise furnished rooms and a weekly wage for home living.
A crowded local notice lists many furnished room rentals near Joske's and Alamo areas. Options include rooms with baths, telephones, kitchenette, private entrances, and car-line proximity, with weekly or monthly rates from two to ten dollars. Also includes employment ads for a practical nurse, stenographer, and companion positions.
Classified notices list multiple rental options in San Antonio and Rogers Park. Items include a two-room unfurnished unit, a three-room furnished cottage with utilities, a fully furnished five-room house near the Country Club, a North Shore summer rental, and a colonial style thirteen-room furnished house for six months. Storefronts on East Houston Street offered for rent or sale.
Modern two three and five room units furnished or unfurnished available close in. Contact 306 Baltimore Ave. Phone 4646. J. M. Nix announces vacancies. WANTED energetic salesmen for city and country, no experience needed. Plaza Realty Co. 3833 Alamo Plaza. SEP Ireven aS Marvel Acetylene Generator seeks salesmen for Texas, small capital required. Marvel Acetylene Generator Co Topeka Kan. SPECIALTY SALESMEN exclusive territory commission only. Pardridge's Liquid Court Plaster Co Detroit Mich.
Advertisement calls for men and women to handle a premier real estate proposition with liberal commissions and no experience required. Inquiry directed to H. J. Benson at Grand Opera House Building. Also seeks woman agents to sell face creams and powders earning about six dollars daily at 229 East Houston, room 6.
A jumble of missing items and notices lists numerous lost objects and animals. Lost items include a black left-hand auto glove near the Grand opera house, a white fox terrier with a two month old pup, a gold monogrammed watch dated 1896, and a thirty-second bar pin. Found a bulldog with initials on the collar. Also ads for furnished rooms and apartments for rent around city streets and avenues.
A collection of room and board notices describes lodging at multiple venues including the Fairmount Hotel, The Jefferson, Hutchins, La Casa, and other addresses. Listings promise furnished rooms with meals, summer rates, private families, river-area quarters, farm accommodations near Von Ormy, and meal tickets, all with contact details and old phone numbers.
Multiple properties advertised for rent or wanted to rent. Listings call for furnished cottages modern houses near transit, five to six rooms, and rooming houses. Contacts include Light address numbers and Plaza Realty Co listings with telephone numbers for responses.
A dense ad page lists multiple buy and repair ads for rags second hand furniture and stoves brass copper lead and rubber sacks and more. It includes requests for a large clean cotton rag shipments second hand refrigerators shoes repairs and jewelry buys with cash offers and contact details for several local businesses.
Classified ad block lists numerous bargain items including government tents army gear and new 6x7 camera. Multiple sellers such as Alamo Tent & Awning Co Willa Lorenzen Max Karotkin S notices offer tents awnings soda fountains pool tables camera and repaired shoes at substantial discounts with sale deadlines and contact addresses in several streets.
Multiple classified items for sale including gravel and black dirt, two nine foot counters, a coffee mill, grocery store shelves, concrete gravel from Cherry pit, irrigation plant equipment, slot machines and arcade devices, an Army shelter tent, and a pumping system with a high capacity. Contact details include phones 5668 5665 and addresses in Wyoming and Philadelphia.
Wanted a fifty egg incubator cheap. Eggs and birds for sale from several breeders. Listings include Brown Leghorn eggs set pricing and Barred Rocks stock with contact details. Includes Crystal White Orpingtons winter layers and live and dressed poultry with delivery in city. Listings show multiple addresses and old phone numbers.
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