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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1912
Page
10
A crowded want ad page lists opportunities across crafts and service jobs. Positions include bar ber trade training, carpentry, timekeeper on construction, cookery, baking, blacksmith helper, cottage painting, candy making, and hotel staff. Also solicits female help and domestic workers with contact notes and addresses.
Classified notices show a young man with office and clerical experience seeking outdoor work or a position as a hatter and presser with tools. Multiple notices include a storekeeper capable of clerical duties and a Spanish-speaking salesman with good references. A farm manager candidate with agriculture degree from Texas A&M seeks permanent employment and can prove livestock and plant breeding abilities.
Situation wanted ad from a female stenographer and dictaphone operator with legal and commercial experience willing to substitute with no salary limit. Old phone numbers listed. Also an expert multigraph operator seeks a position with a reliable firm and office management capability.
Classified notice seeking agents to sell building contracting services with earnings of 200 to 500 dollars monthly or as home workers. Company claims to build anywhere in the state with installment plans and no interest. Contact Provident Copedatta Corporation, 311 Frost Building, San Antonio, Texas. Also listings for furnished rooms for rent with various prices and locations in San Antonio.
Three unfurnished rooms with bath four blocks from the 8 P depot at 1009 Wyoming per month. Also two or three unfurnished rooms with couple, all conveniences and close in. Old phone 7551.
Multiple listings describe furnished rooms for light housekeeping in San Antonio. Options include single and double rooms with baths, gas and electric lights, hot water, and proximity to depots and business centers. Some require no children or no invalids. several offer private homes or walking distance to services. Old and new phone numbers are provided for contact.
Classified rental notices list rooms with or without board at multiple addresses including 112 Live Oak 213 Richmond Ave 621 Essex St 617 Avenue B and 106 Nebraska St. Also mentions 8 to 10 room houses and a modern four room bungalow with hot and cold water, all inquiries directed to specific phones and addresses. Lost items include a brown wallet with currency and a black leather medicine case with rewards offered.
Multiple rental notices list available properties in San Antonio and area. Includes five to seven room cottages and modern homes in Prospect Hill, Laurel Heights, South Heights, and Tobin Hill with prices from $14 to $27.50 monthly. Contacts include Richey & Casey Rental Dept and agents at 219 E Houston, 597-509 Navarro St.
A dense list of rental notices describes multiple properties in San Antonio area: modern and furnished houses, cottages, and flats across streets like Brooklyn Ave Omaha St Laurel Heights Gunter Bldg Belden Ave Moon St Dawson. Prices range from 8 to 20 dollars monthly with amenities including car lines baths electric lights sewers and yards. Temporary contact details and old phone numbers are noted.
Multiple listings describe seven and three room upper flats, six room lower flats, and two furnished three room apartments with private bath. rents range from 25 to 40 dollars. Locations include 314 Carolina St 612 W Macon 512 W Macon 616 Baltimore Ave 418 South Presa 309 E Laurel and near Tobin Hill with car service. Rentals emphasize modern conveniences and private entrances.
Numerous ads seek rags for three cents a pound and upholstering work at Household Furniture Co. 214-216 W Commerce St. A phonograph repair tip line to Louis' Book Store old phone 1336 new 44. Cash paid for diamonds and old gold at Alamo Jewelry Co. 315 Alamo Plaza. Jewelry buyout by William N Capurro 502% E Houston St. Two horse power electric motor wanted. Wall paper sale at Bacon’s 212 E Houston St. Matthew's Cafeteria offers home style meals. Harry Budoen offers Jewish cards and novelties 51642 East Houston St. 16 inch Crescent jointer for sale via phone 1621.
Live stock and vehicles buy and sell, including horses, mules, cows and new or second hand autos. Six delivery wagons offered cheap by San Antonio Steam Laundry Co. Auto Equipment Co. offers general auto repairs and Paige-Detroit cars. Auto tops and upholstery by Auto Top Co. F Pasche & Son advertise automobile painting. Cash register and restaurant furniture for sale by Newton Weller Wagner Co. Travel and D. Central Vulcanizing advertise tire and casing repair services. Thomas H. Carow proclaims automotive expertise.
Multiple rental and sale notices for storefronts and business spaces in San Antonio. Listings include corner stores at Santa Rosa and Buena Vista and 102 E Commerce St with subletting. two stores on East Houston Street for lease. ground floor spaces at 038 & Houston. auto repair and welding services. a Sterling Five passenger automobile for sale. and a Jones Speedome Ter offered by H E Dickinson Co. Includes contact details for Richey Casey, Central Auto Co, and others.
Classified notices show WANTED entries for rental property and rooms, a stable and lot near Brackenridge High, and a four or five room furnished house near Alamo plaza. Also listed are livestock for sale including hens, pigeons, and Black Minorcas, with contact details and prices.
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