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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1912
Page
8
Classification rates for 1¢ ads in the San Antonio Light detail per word pricing for executive insertions consecutive insertions and minimum counts. It notes Sunday extra charges, monthly rates, a $2.25 minimum monthly charge, and publishers right to reject copy. Telephone order handling and stop orders require written instructions.
Called communication of An chor lodge No 424 A F A M this evening at 8 o clock for work in the Third Degree. Alamo lodge No 44 and visiting brethren are invited to be present. J M Strayhorn W M.
A bustling list of job notices seeks male assistants for managers in live towns, auto school students, traveling paint salesmen, bookkeepers, gardeners, private detectives, timekeeper clerks, bread foremen, mail clerks, and barber trainees. Several ads request references, salaries, and Spanish fluency. Locations include San Antonio and surrounding streets.
Classified help wanted notices list numerous domestic roles and skilled positions. Entries include German, white, or colored women for housework, cooks, stenographers, and a nurse or companion, with various addresses and contact numbers across the city. Some listings seek professionals like chauffeurs, mechanics, and sales staff.
A series of lost items including a bay horse, a bar pin, a gold brooch, a bicycle, a chauffeur badge, a purse, a white bull puppy, glasses, a Jersey cow, and a red brindle Jersey cow. Rewards offered. locations include Garden Street, Joske's area, Central Market, Garza Street, 1201 W Houston, 234 Washer Building, 320 Brooklyn, 206 Lexington, and broader pasture near Salado. Contact details include 1102 Garden St, 6536 old phone, 837 Garza Bt, 10 Light office, and Frank Fuller at No. 502 Seain St.
A crowded classified listing details furnished rooms with baths telephones and weekly rates near Joske's and the car line. Includes private homes front rooms two blocks from Joske's several addresses such as 304 South Alamo 1412 Buena Vista 445 Soledad and 129 Water with options for single or shared spaces and kitchenettes.
Rentals announce furnished housekeeping rooms with bath gas and electric light hot and cold water at 315 E Nueva St. Oliver Cafeteria offers cooked meats and pastry to take home opposite Joske's. Additional housekeeping and sleeping rooms near San Pedro Park at 628 W Myrtle St with large halls and galleries and summer-friendly rates.
Multiple five and six room rental homes listed with addresses in San Antonio area. Properties include modern cottages on McMullen Ave Hot Wells area Madison Square 411 Trenton Ave 410 Live Oak billets at 320 Lafitte 741 Main Ave 4220 Light N Olive 1305 N Pine 1625 MN New Braunfels Ave 1621 New Braunfels Ave 1606 S Presa and 1124 N Olive plus an eight room stone house near city center. Prices range from $15 to $30 monthly with various utilities. Agents A W Bitter and R H Wester Co list contact numbers.
Numerous ads describe furnished rooms and small apartments for light housekeeping along with private entrances and modern conveniences. Locations include Omaha Street Woodlawn Ave Crockett North Flores and several near San Antonio streets with weekly rates and board options. Private homes offer bath gas lights and phone use plus special rates for young men.
Rentals listed include an eight room house on Tobin Hill at 621 E Washington and a four room cottage at 115 Ira Ave, both with modern conveniences. Other furnished four and three room homes offered near I N depot Comal Harlandale and Alamo Heights with utilities and baths. Contact Old or new phones for inquiries.
Multiple rental notices list storefront and upper floor spaces in the city. 903 East Houston Street corner store at 50 dollars, 905 East Houston Street at 365 dollars, plus two upper floors at 134 Soledad for club rooms or lodging. Also Schulers Sign Co. at 102 West Commerce seeks office or shop tenants with optional sign privileges.
Multiple listings show private five room to four room flats and a three room flat for rent. Examples include furnished and unfurnished options at locations such as 701 Ave EB, Aubrey Street, 725 East Commerce, and 817 No. for Rent near Houston Street. Calls cite old phone numbers 6924 and 5642 for inquiries.
Notice seeks property owners to list rental homes in Madison Square Tobin Hill and nearby districts. Plaza Realty and Richey & Casey urge immediate listing with up to date rental dept and provide contact details at 333 Alamo Plaza and 426 Navarro. Listings request furnished or unfurnished homes with reasonable rent and proximity to transit.
A dense listing of local notices seeks rental properties, buyers for second hand goods, repairs, jewelry trade ins, shoe repairs, and services. It includes rental agents Richey & Casey and H C Thurman, repair shops, jewelry buyers, and various wants from diamonds to pool tables and horse forage.
Classified notice listing Gravel slot machines electric pianos and arcade games for sale or trade. Also U S Army shelter tents sale address 1006 WN Flores St Philadelphia and other items including folding chairs wall paper services. Roy Lightfoot and B Rubin advertise furniture and rental items with contact details. Old phone numbers included.
Local ads list installment jewelry sales at Dromgooles on 105 EB Houston St with multiple bargain diamond prices and display windows. Other notices include Alamo Jewelry near the Alamo and a Masonic charm for sale or exchange, plus various small ads for building bricks and a Fox typewriter.
Classified notices offer Starlight strain Plymouth Rocks and Buff Plymouth Rocks for sale with price per egg and per hundred. Also list Brown Leghorn eggs for setting, full blood Barred Plymouth Rock eggs, Crystal White Orpingtons, and buff Orpingtons. Locations include Brown County Iowa Ladonia Texas Elgin Ohio Osceola Iowa Madison Square and addresses with phone numbers.
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