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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1912
Page
10
Rates for classified ads specify per word pricing for different insertion counts. Minimum monthly charge is 2.25 dollars with 16.5 cents per word for monthly runs and no Sunday charge. Ads over the phone accepted until 11 a.m. on weekdays and 10 p.m. for Sunday editions.
A dense Help Wanted listing set includes trades and general labor posts from multiple employers. Advertisements seek jewelers, telegraph operators, stablehands, magazine solicitors, chauffeurs, bakers, bookkeepers, housemaids, cooks, and office staff with varying experience requirements and references.
Classified notice seeking ten hustlers to finish selling Seadrift five acre tracts and town lots priced at 300 dollars with 10 dollars down and 10 dollars monthly. Claiming 1250 five acre tracts and 1250 lots sold since May 1, 1911. Contact Ford at 109 Avenue D Gibbs building. Also promotes Home Certificates via National Building and Investment Co. 807 819 Gunter Building.
Multiple urban rental ads describe furnished and unfurnished rooms for rent near central San Antonio streets such as Losoya Alamo St Marys Taylor Lavaca and Water St. Some listings include heating hot baths car line proximity references and private homes with or without board. Prices start around $1.50 per day with varying terms and room sizes for single or two occupants.
Unfurnished rooms for rent at 304 Soledad and 2111 N Flores west of San Pedro Park. One to three rooms available, low rates, ideal for single occupants seeking simple accommodations.
Several listings offer furnished light housekeeping rooms with private entrances including options at 425 San Pedro avenue 1034 Avenue D 125 Pecan and 1106 West Houston street. Prices range from monthly rates and include gas and modern conveniences.
Advertisements offer five to three furnished rooms for light or full housekeeping at various addresses on Crockett Street West Marshall Avenue D and other nearby locations. Several inns and private homes advertise board meals, baths, and car-line proximity with prices from daily to weekly. Old phones listed.
A flood of rental requests from different households seeks rooms and houses. Entries include furnished and unfurnished rooms near San Pedro Avenue Laurel Heights and Soledad Street with references required and short-term to long-term terms.
A fragmented classifieds page lists multiple WANTED notices including miscellaneous items, diamonds and old gold, upholstery and drapery work, phonographs in repair, watch and jewelry repair at low prices, a water storage request, white cotton rags for the Light Office, wells to drill, land grub work, and a small burro or donkey for sale. Names and addresses appear with phone numbers and locations on East Houston and West Commerce streets, Denver Street, and nearby substation details.
Furnished apartments available with hot and cold running water bath electric light and gas. Located at 315 E Nueva. Also one room flat with piano rent option near 415 Richmann. A four room flat at 2520 Dittmar Street with modern conveniences listed. Old phone 6082.
For rent property includes a Warwickouse at Monterey and Ijalano streets and a Baker shop with a large oven and route included. Available for whole or part usage. Contact 204 Pereida or 230 Mission. Carie Grocery Company wholesale grocers lists the spaces.
Classified notices advertise office rooms in the Conroy Building at 120 North Alamo Street and other rental options on East Houston Street Plum and Lawa corners. Opportunities include warehousing near Military Plaza, machine shop space at 323 Austin Street, and a new store with fixtures at 126 Fairplay Avenue.
A fragmented listing advertises used office items including desks, tables, chairs, file cabinets, typewriters, a Burroughs adding machine, an Underwood typewriter, a motorized adding machine, file shelving, a steel safe, an eight day clock, a glass partition, and a leather trunks sale through Room 808 Gibbs Building. Also notes redeemable trunks offered at a quarter of value and a separate Good Building Rock for sale at 409 Wilmington Avenue.
Numerous listings from J. C. Guenther Rhysland to Fairview Poultry Yards and Seidel over several lines advertise poultry stock eggs and feeds. Includes Red and White Plymouth Rocks White Leghorns Minorcas Brow n Leghorns and various cockerels with prices and contact details in San Antonio New Braunfels Alvin Clint and other Texas towns. Also includes a poultry food ground rice product from East Commerce Street and a homestead sale at 419 King William Street with poultry Reds and Rocks.
Advertisements list buyers and sellers of horses mules cows and vehicles. F Cocke requests cheap buys at 821 West Nueva. L B Wilborne offers two jacks from Nursery Texas. A black stallion two years five months stands near Morales. A fast gentle horse and buggy sale at 530 South Laredo Street. Holstein and Jersey cow producing 2 1/2 gallons at 424 Vine Street. A fine young Jersey cow for butter at 65 dollars if sold this week on 201 Essex Street.
A compact old ad lists Hay and grain garden and field seed poultry supplies incubators and broader at Packard Auto Ferdistafel 319 East Commerce It mentions convenient call and pay later with VeplrPhone Lure Want Add and two phone numbers 176 The rates read one cent per word for a single line ten times a half cent per word.
Reward offered for information leading to the whereabouts of A T who left 626 Main Avenue on January 27. Lt. Goldman at 409 Main Plaza requests any tips to locate the person or recover items related to the case.
A jumble of 1920s classified style notices seeks work. Entries include a collector or sales learner, a fireman willing to relocate, a grocery store helper with references, a competent stenographer with law experience, a self described educated young man, a capable mechanic, and a private family chauffeur with references. Contact details appear as old phone numbers and care-of addresses.
Limited openings in Texas and San Antonio area offer subdivision lots at 100 and 175 dollars with terms of 5 dollars cash and 5 dollars monthly. No interest. Sales manager Plaza Realty Co 333 Alamo Plaza.
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