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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1912
Page
10
A dense list of help wanted notices across trades and services. Banking on positions from insurance workers to bakers, barbers, yardmen, solicitors, press buyers, maids, cooks, and machine operators. Highlights include requests for four gravel haulers, fourteen plus teams, a barber trainee program, and a nurse or maid with references. Local establishments like White Horse Tavern and Bailie’s Bakery cited among many entries in San Antonio.
ASan Antonio classified page lists several help wanted ads including K epley Sample Shoe Co seeking customers for a sample room at Sour building Alamo plaza. a wholesale grocery/retail grocery experience seeker. stenographer or correspondent. bookkeeper with five years’ accounting seeks out of town position. dairy driver position. multilingual office worker with French English German Spanish. bookkeeper or traveling salesman with entry 4211 Light. young married man for clerking. and a druggist with fifteen years’ experience seeking retail or mix positions.
Female experienced stenographer seeks immediate position for moderate salary. References available, address 4204 Light. Energetic woman seeks companion nurse or housekeeper role for trip to California, references at 4209 Light. Young lady pantry position, phone 2860. German girl seeks two-person family work, no washing or ironing, respond 4210 Light. Neat young lady seeks office position with five years typing experience, old phone 1482.
AGENTS WANTED FOR RENT LIGHT HOUSEKEEPING ROOMS modern 214 Dallas St Call Mrs Hanel 606 Fourth St. HOUSEKEEPING AND SLEEPING ROOMS Most delightful in city for summer resort Large halls and galleries Facing San Pedro Park modern prices reasonable to ap there is to see them 628 W Myrtle St MEN AND WOMEN TO HANDLE the best advertised and easiest Selling real estate proposition on the market today Liberal commissions Experience unnecessary Inquire H J Benson Grand Opera House building WANTED LADY AGENTS TO HANDLE my face creams powders etc Easily make 36 per day no fake Apply 229 E Houston room 6 TWO ROOMS FOR LIGHT HOUSEKEEPING 208 Fifth St
Numerous lost items including a black leather glove on Crockett Street near Grand Opera House with reward at Daily Light, a brown fox terrier with brown spot on body and collar marked 204 Villita Street, a gold watch monogram J M B dated 1896, a black silk dress and silk waist, two black Caracul girls coats at 106 W. Crockett Street, and a Greek fraternity pin. Rewards offered. several addresses listed for returns. Also several furnished rooms for rent and housekeeping rooms in San Antonio area.
Readers see a flurry of room and board notices from Fairmount Hotel La Casa and others offering furnished rooms with meals. Includes specific addresses and contact notes for long and short term occupancy, plus several lost items notices and hotel ads.
A compilation of local rental notices with addresses on San Pedro, Soledad, North Flores, Carson, Adams, Pecan, Crosby, Spofford, and surrounding streets. Includes seven to eight room houses with baths, modern conveniences, car line access, large yards, and multiple small cottages. Prices range from $6 to $40 per month with various contact methods.
Large office space in the Moore building with furnished reception room use, typewriter, stenographer, bookkeeper and phones. Right party can get reasonable terms. Apply 602 Moore Blog.
Multiple listings advertise modern four and five room furnished or unfurnished apartments and houses for rent. Locations include Baltimore Ave Brook lyn Ave Avenue E Elmira Elmira and Lexington streets with contact numbers and realty firms Plaza Realty Co Richey Casey Oliver Cafeteria and others. Wording notes units with private baths heated lighted and proximity to car lines. Some vacancies request summer care and references.
A jumble of classified lines seeks used cot ton rags old brass and rubber second hand furniture and stoves large refrigerators repair services shoe repair and tailoring exchanges plus jewelry buyers and cash for diamonds gold and silver electricians and a lawyer notary office listed with contact details and phones.
Local classifieds show hats cleaned for 1.00 at Dupuy 103 East Houston and surveys for second hand buzz fans needed. Wigwam Theatre notes. Walter Jones referenced. Phonograph purchase wanted cheap with good condition. contact at New phone 2507. Upholstering and drapery work sought at Household Furniture Co. 214 216 West Commerce. Call Louis' Book Store about out of repair phonographs. numbers Old 1336 new 44.
Hoosier Novelty Co of Indianapolis offers nickel plated sample keyless locks attached without tools. The prepaid price is 25 cents.
An aggregation of classified blurbs listing gravel and dirt for sale, discounts on concrete materials, pest and irrigation equipment offers, used and new machines, lawn care services, penny arcade items, shelter tents, and a postcard exchange. Many entries include old phone numbers and street addresses.
Various breeders and traders list eggs chicks and stock in many varieties. Names include E Kieffer 602 River Ave. C A Willard 104 Rout St Alamo Heights. M J Van Eman box 7000 Elgin Ohio. Chas Had en Ladonia. W A Seidel 316 Spofford Ave. Louis H Scholl Poultry Yards New Braunfels. and others offering Barred Plymouth Rocks White Leghorns Brown Leghorns Rhode Island Reds and more with prices from 10 cents to 2 dollars per unit and delivery options locally.
A dense ad page lists multiple used cars and parts with contact details across cities. Motors include a red roadster, Metz 1910 runabout, Chalmers THIRTY, a 60 H P seven passenger, and a five passenger model with trade options. Also notes elder power transmission and Auto Guide road data, plus vendors Rider Manufacturing Co and Auto Sales and Supply Co.
Several job ads seeking female workers and general house help. Listings include road position pay 26 dollars weekly call room 416 Central Office, white girl for general housework at 119 Nolan, intelligent woman for a responsible well paying post at No 4198 Light, young lady solicitor with references at No 1216 Light.
Several rental notices list six to thirteen room houses and cottages with baths near Alamo Mission Hays Carey Ave Alamo area. Properties include furnished cottages and houses with telephones provided. Some offers mention near Aransas depot Country club North Shore Rogers Park and Harlandale area with old phones and new phones for contact.
Miscellaneous classified notices describe engines and castings for sale from Richards Iron Works Manitowoc Wis and various wares. Advertisements include collapsible go carts awnings tents plants hardware and US government tents with contact details for Max Karotkin S Newding R S Morris and others.
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