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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1912
Page
8
Bulk of early 20th century help wanted notices from various cities offer male assistants in merchandising auto schools barber training and general labor. Listings include salaries up to 3000 yearly and positions for solicitors salesmen drivers clerks and hotel staff with multiple bureaus and trade schools in Austin New Orleans San Antonio and other locales.
A collage of help wanted notices from a historic paper seeking female workers for cooking housework and domestic service. Listings include Salvation Army Rescue Home invites, white and colored help, wages offered, addresses in San Pedro Avenue Carson Madison Kerrville Beacon Hill and more, with phone numbers and specific job details.
Situations wanted male advertisement from a young, married applicant offering as a sober, careful driver with references and repair experience. Provides address 4112 but bears unclear location. Also notes a young married man seeking any suitable job including clerk experience in a general store with a neat appearance.
A string of notices lists lost items including a female black collie with white collar and light face, a male brindle bulldog, a small bunch of keys on a ring, a fur coat, a genuine cut glass piece, a gold watch with monogram, a roll of bedding, a purse with the address of A F Chase Co, and two light mares. Rewards offered. owners seek return via local offices and managers.
A dense block of small advertisements for furnished rentals across San Antonio. Listings include St Francis Hotel European plan rooms on Losoya street, The Sylmar and 425 Main Avenue rooms, Alamo Stables livery services, and numerous single rooms near the Post Office and Joske's. Prices range from 50 cents to 3.50 per week, with various amenities and proximity notes.
Two unfurnished rooms for rent at 1338 North Flores and two to three rooms at 2111 North Flores, west side near San Pedro Park. Call YoukR Want Ads LP for convenient calling and deferred payment. Rates: one time 1 cent per word, ten times 1/2 cent per word.
Multiple listings advertise Nicely furnished light housekeeping rooms across San Pedro Avenue Flores Street and Tobin Hill in private homes and flats. Many offer private entrances gas electric light baths and reasonable monthly terms. several include board and hot water or running water and guest access. Old phones and addresses provided.
Newly built five room apartment with garage and servant's room is available for rent at 1117 EB Woodlawn. Modern conveniences included. Old phone 2746.
Multiple listings offer shop and office space for rent or sale in key downtown blocks. Properties include a Wakkehouse corner at Monterey and jjalade, entire or partial floor space at 03 East Houston, 805 Mackay office space, 512 and 514 B. Houston St, 1210 Mason St grocery with living rooms, and a six-room rental house opposite Sap depot with two car lines nearby. Conness Realty Co. exclusive agents.
Classified notes seek rental opportunities from two couples and individuals offering furnished and unfurnished rooms. Listings include addresses 4053 Wight 4124 Light and post office box 116 with requests for modern, close in, strictly first class housing and light housekeeping.
Classified notes show buyers seeking diamonds old gold and silver repairs at various shops such as Capurro jeweler on East Houston and Drumgoole Bros at Houston street. Also requests for upholstery drapery work, phonograph repair, painting and paperhanging by W A Simpson, and buyers for furniture, feather beds, ice boxes, bicycles, safes, and a gate with cash offers.
Classified poultry ads feature Walsh's Buff Orpingtons with show wins at Lone Star events, plus multiple breeders offering eggs, chicks, and stock. Listings include Green Cut Bone Meal and East Commerce feed firms, Persian kittens, dogs, and watch eggs, with prices and contact details across San Antonio and nearby towns.
Auction style rural ads list live stock including horses mules cows and jacks for sale or trade. Items include two year old Jersey cow with calf five year old black Tennessee jack registered pigs dairy cows and a sorrel mare with harness. Locations in Douglas and El Paso Hondo Mittman streets Mitchell Cactus St, West Nueva, Morales and Monterey contact details provided.
A column lists multiple help requests including a young man seeking chauffeur work with references, a middle aged couple offering yard and cook help, a strong young man seeking any suitable work, a married man seeking advancement, a ranch helper near San Antonio for board, and an attendant position in a physician or dentist office with referrals. Contact numbers and brief notes accompany each.
SITUATIONS WANTED FEMALE A refined middle aged married lady seeks hotel work with board. Experienced in dining room cafe and lunch counter. Address S L care Light. WANTED GOOD TEACHER POSITION First grade certificate several years experience Box 88 route 3 Hamilton Tex. SITUATION WANTED BY MIDDLE AGED LADY AS HOUSEKEEPER Best references Address 4 care Light. POSITION WANTED BY REFINED MIDDLE AGED LADY Companion housekeeper director's office or any trusted position References checked Address 4260 Light. A SICK NURSE WANTS EMPLOYMENT confinement fever specialty Old phone 727.
Classified notices seek agents across Texas to write livestock insurance for the Texas Live Stock Association and to finish selling Seadrift lots and acreages. Offers include five acre tracts, town lots, and easy payment plans. Also advertising high class agents for Los Angeles Heights additions in San Antonio.
SALESMEN WANTED You can sell iota in a high class subdivision at 100 and 176 on terms of 5 cash and 6 monthly without interest and other attractive features Salary or commission Only a few openings in Texas and San Antonio territory Address Sales Manager Plaza Realty Co 333 Alamo Plaza Telephone your want ads if in 10 times percent a w
Rubber tire runabout and harness offered for 125 dollars, cash buyers receive 50 off, located 140 Belmont Street East End. A new bicycle wheel rubber tire buggy is advertised for less than factory cost at 207 South Cherry Street. Money raising sale of secondhand buggies carriages and wagons on easy terms at 322 West Nueva. Pasche and Son advertise automobile and carriage painting with a new phone number. Automobile and buggy tops mended at 95 North San Saba Old Bon New 3481.
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