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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1912
Page
12
Mrs Genevive L Wiggins entered into rest Monday April 8 1912 at 7 45 p m in her twenty ninth year Friends invited to attend the funeral Wednesday afternoon at 3 30 from her residence 1107 S Flores St Interment in Mission Burial Park
Classified help wanted notices include male assistant managers in Austin with $300 cash and references, experienced box nailers in Nolan and Cherry streets, auto school enrollment in San Antonio with move to 124 Ave. D, shorthand training at San Antonio Business College, and door-to-door sales opportunities with exclusive agency samples from Milwaukee Ohio area.
A proposition will go quickly among the best class of people in Southwest Texas. Those with clean past records will receive liberal treatment and those whose records do not stand in investigation need not apply. Address for interview for positions related to San Antonio Life Insurance Company stock sales.
Advertisements seek experienced residential salesman, railway mail clerks, a blacksmith, city salesmen, a bright office helper, tailor and presser, finishers, carpenter, machinist fluent in Spanish, female help including masseur manicure and beauty, bindery girls, a wholesale representative, a white girl for housework, light house work, and a colored girl to care for a one year old. Locations include San Antonio, Austin and Lamar corners, Mackay Building, St. James Hotel. contact details mention box 205 Marshall Texas and Greiser No. 9703 Light.
Job ads invite agents to handle a premier real estate opportunity with liberal commissions and no experience needed. Also seeks lady agents for face creams and cosmetics offering about six dollars daily, location 229 E. Houston room 5.
A jumble of lost items includes a black silk dress with matching waist and white wings, a lady’s opal ring, a thirty second bar pin with a diamond, a diamond ring between Plaza theater and Crockett hotel, a lady’s small diamond ring near 219 Broad Ave, a lady’s silk parasol engraved Bertha to Jane, a gray bay horse, and a black silk coat. Rewards offered. Contact details include 683, 270, 1012 Howard St, and old phone numbers.
Numerous city rental notices list furnished front rooms with baths hot water and private entrances. Locations include North Street 308 Water Newton Buena Vista 1415 and 305 Martin with prices around four to five dollars per week. Also ads for meals at Oliver Cafeteria Acme Lunch Rooms and private family housing on Soledad Goliad and Idaho Streets.
The page lists numerous houses and rooms for rent including two UK three nicely furnished rooms with private entrance at 111 West Quincy, and various single rooms or suites with bath, meals, or board. Addresses include 628 W Myrtle, 226 Omaha, 601 W Woodlawn, 322 Nevada, 918 Avenue B, 403 Water St, and 610 Augusta among others with old phone contacts and seasonal rates.
A series of rental listings shows multiple addresses on Sixth and Pinto Streets with monthly prices from 15.00 to 36.00 and contact noted as PETTY & BOUDREAUX at City National Bank Building with old phone 6586.
Auction style real estate notice lists furnished cottages near Harlandale wells with old and new phone numbers. It also advertises a furnished four room house with bath water and gas, a central furnished home at 141 Taylor St, and rooms for washing by a white woman. Additional entries include corner stores on East Houston St and a barn with stables plus a store suitable for a saloon near Mission loop Berg's Mill and Route 1.
Several listings describe well furnished three room flats, two bedroom units, and four room ground floor options with private baths and modern conveniences. Locations include 702 Brooklyn Ave, Geneva Apartments 317 East Commerce, 306 North Street, Aubrey Street, and 817 No. Main Street with references to old phone numbers and nearby blocks.
WANTED TO RENT. IF YOU WANT TO RENT THAT HOUSE of yours list it with us. We are head quarters. Plaza Realty Co., 333 Alamo plaza Both phones 3634. LIST YOUR RENT HOUSES WITH US. Our rental department is up-to-date and efficient. Richey & Casey, 425 Navarro. Either phone 2236. WANTED FURNISHED COTTAGE OR house to care for during summer by business man and wife, with no children, best of local references and no sick. Address 4208 Light.
Classified line items show WANTED miscellaneous shoe repair services offering delivery and guarantee at lowest prices by Champion Artistic Shoe Repair Co. S Rosenbaum proprietor 111 W Houston St New phone 1472 plus other ads for clothing buyers, diamond and old gold buyers William N Capurro jeweler 602% East Houston St and a lawyer Joseph J Sweeney notary 5024 E Houston St.
A scattered classifieds list seeks buyers and services including hats cleaned at Dupuy, upholstery and drapery work, phonograph repair, horse purchase, roller top desk, used bicycle, lumber, platform scale, tent purchase, screen work, house raising, and a typewriter sale. Also mentions WIGWAM THEATRE and household furniture company locations.
Numerous classified items promote sale of awnings camping gear ponds and plants with prices and contact details. Listings include U S government tents camera pool tables and a variety of household and outdoor items from Alamo Tent & Awning Co Yale Mfg Co Bond Hardware South Park Terrace Greenhouse and Max Karotkin with addresses in San Antonio areas and nearby streets.
An old classified row promotes Gravel for walks and best concrete gravel at Cherry gravel pit with Old phone 5668. It also touts a large water pumping claim and an offer to purchase a complete pumping outfit for 150 dollars after viewing plant work. Additional items include a White Frost refrigerator for sale and contact numbers 182 and 2535.
Numerous ads offer a wide range of fowl and farming stock for sale. Includes homing pigeons black Minorcas Buff Orpingtons and Rhode Island Reds eggs and chicks. Also mentions breeding stock, incuba tors, and a registered Jersey bull for service. Prices given for some items. Listings show multiple addresses and old phone numbers.
Classified ad section seeking renters and buyers. RICHEY & CASEY Rental Dept lists Howard Mer address and phones for tenants. Multiple items include large unfurnished room near car line, furnished cool room near Marshall St school, large white cotton rags purchase, second hand sacks and metal goods wanted, furniture and repair services, and cash paid for diamonds gold silver and coins at Alamo Jewelry Co.
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