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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1911
Page
14
The notice outlines monthly rates of 15 cents per word with a $2.25 minimum, consecutive insertion rules, and percentages for longer runs. It also covers telephone takeovers, deadlines, indefinite run rules, and the requirement for written stop orders to discontinue time‑form ads.
Classified notices invite young men and boys to apply for assistant manager roles in five towns with good pay and advancement. Also requests chauffeurs and auto school students, with multiple locations including New Orleans and Texas. Fragments mention barber trade training and job placement services.
A collection of classified entries from a Texas paper listing men seeking jobs. Foreman, fireman, carpenter, electrician, shipping clerk, and driving positions are requested by individuals with notes on experience, locations like Ashwood Monroe and addresses such as 443 Soledad and 2241 Light. Many entries include age, marital status, and availability.
A stream of lost property notices appears with many items including a book credit No. 803449, a brown sable collar, a gold locket, a set of keys, a muff and fur, a crescent stick pin with pearls, and a long pearl set earring. Reward offers and return addresses span 222 Garden, 309 Mackay building, 2124 Monterey, 215 Hast Evergreen, 318 Nacogdoches, 316? N. Avenue, and other city locations. Classified room rentals advertise furnished and unfurnished rooms near car lines and post office, with several old phone numbers and street addresses cited.
Numerous listings offer furnished rooms for light housekeeping with gas and electric lights. Locations include 617 Nolan Street 408 Water Street 623 North Street 208 Devine Street 321 East Nueva Street 315 East Nueva Street 109 Nathan 307 South Cherry Street and 425 San Pedro. Prices vary with monthly rates and proximity to transit. Old phones listed for contact.
A long list of furnished and light housekeeping rooms and board options is advertised around downtown, including two blocks from the Menger Hotel and near Joske's, with details on rents, baths, car-line access, and phones. Listings include hotels offering rooms and board, plus several single rooms with or without meals.
A long column of rental notices across San Antonio style pages, listing houses and cottages for rent on Lawson Street, Sheridan Street, Montoya, Obraje, North Hackberry, Buena Vista Street, Laurel Heights, Booth Heights park, and Tobin Hill area. Entries include 3 to 8 room homes, modern conveniences, baths, porches, car lines, furnishing options, and contact details such as W. R. McDonald, Mrs. Mackay, J. Zw. Zirkel, and T. J. Hart, with prices from $9 to $45 and addresses like 600 Faust Commerce Street and 1610 Buena Vista Street.
A collage of classified notices requests rental housing from one to five rooms near Light street with mentions of light housekeeping furnished rooms. Several buyers seek furnished two to three rooms and a single upstairs room with conveniences. Also ads for piano tuning, sale or trade of a flute, mahogany Miller upright, pennies laundry, rags for cotton, diamonds and old gold, secondhand shoes, sewing by day, piano for long term rent, remodeling and upholstery work, and phonograph repairs.
Multiple notices offer buggy horses phaeton or surrey standard bred horse twenty head mares and ponies for sale or exchange. Sellers include H R Ibrie A L Elson Captain John W Womack East Commerce Meea Co Bill Stanford Starkey's Stables and others with contact by phone or location in Gunter LeCompte Utopia Nueva streets and 320 West Nueva street. Fifteen head ponies priced 30 to 60 dollars. Horse and cattle trading prospects advertised across Texas locations.
Classified ads list various farm animals and equipment for sale including a five year old sorrel mare with colt, two Jersey cows, a roan mare with foal, a heavy horse, wagon and harness, a sorrel horse, and a saddle pony. Locations span San Pedro Avenue, East Mitchell Street, Presa, Essex Street, Fort Sam Houston, Labor Street, Live Oak, and old phone contacts. Prices range from 40 to 135 dollars, with bargains and quick sale notes.
Classified list offers live and dressed turkeys and poultry from Jacob Brandt 1150 Roosevelt Avenue with delivery in the city. Also notes egg producers and various birds and pets for sale including canaries parrots poodles and collie pups with multiple addresses and contact numbers.
An advertisement promotes open spring wagons from 60 to 200 dollars, milk and baker’s wagons at 1765, laundry wagons 160, and rubber tired runabouts from 80 to 125 dollars. It also notes a new shipment of Luedinghaus wagons at 23216 West Commerce Street by the F. W. Extence Navg Co as sole agents, plus storage for furniture and pianos with moving and packing services by L. W. Culver and Henry C. Rips with contact phones.
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