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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1912
Page
26
The notice lists numbered per word rates for insertions with specific multipliers, minimums, and charges for ads under 15 words. It notes no extra Sunday charge, telephonic submission, and publishers’ right to reject or revise objectionable copy.
Advertisers must place all indefinite classified ads in writing and not by telephone. Discontinuation orders also require writing and cannot be given by phone. A stop order receipt is issued when a time indefinite ad is ordered discontinued.
A flood of classifieds seeks workers and sales reps in San Antonio. Listings include auto school promotion, sales positions, farm help, general labor, band lessons, electrical, barber, boiler maker, ginner, carpentry, clerical, and merchant roles. Some postings request experience. others offer training and commissions.
A heterogeneous clipping lists help wanted items including female work in Roxbury Mass and San Antonio Texas. Entries cover card sales stenography cooking housework clerical work and other positions with addresses and pay prompts.
A city mission serves girls and women with free shelter and an employment bureau. Requests to refer someone in need should go to Grand and River Avenues, with details on living and work options. Numerous help-wanted notices seek white women for kitchen, chambermaid, housekeeping, laundry, and stenography roles across local addresses and employers.
A collection of situation wanted notices from a small town listing a male job seeker, a German farm foreman candidate, a 14 year old office helper, a druggist with 12 years experience, an English-Spanish translator, a young German machine shop apprentice, and a 20 year old man seeking part time work for board.
Multiple classifieds seek steady positions in housework cooking and care. Listings include a stenographer and dictaphone operator, housekeeper for a widow or small family, child care and home duties, ranch or camp care, and chambermaid or waitress roles with various light-area addresses and references.
Classified snippets offer patent fuel-saving devices, beer extract, hosiery sales, list-lead commissions, and beauty school services. Includes calls for agents and commissions, with locations in San Antonio area and nationwide distributors.
A series of notices offer rewards for returns of a lost gold watch and chain to Frank R. Newton county clerk. A pale red cow branded J. W. with bar on left rib is missing and contact D P Smith. A white female Spitz named Teddy answers to Teddy and can be claimed at Club Stables for a reward. A small gold cuff link engraved C F A ring 8816 old is lost between DRAUGHONs business college and Travis Park with a reward offered. A mesh bag containing about 90 cents in change was lost on Martin or Taylor Streets. old phone 6574. reward offered.
Classifieds list lost bike in Dayton with reward offered, a brindle bull terrier female named Maxie, a bay mare 15% hands high with distinctive markings, and multiple rooms for rent near Joske's and post office with varying rates and amenities. Other notices include hotels and lodgings, summer rates, and addresses for inquiries.
Furnished housekeeping rooms with bath gas electric light hot and cold water from $15 at Nueva Street and The Ripps Apartments on Rusk Street. Listings include two large upstairs rooms at 236 Rusk, connected front suites, private family units on plan street, and multiple other houses on South Cherry, West Elmira, Mesquite, Sixth Street, Madison Street, Main Street, and Burleson Street offering light housekeeping, modern conveniences, telephones, and car-line access. Old and new phone numbers provided.
Multiple single room and board notices listed for properties in Fairmont and nearby areas. Advertisements include furnished rooms with or without meals at addresses on East Commarow Street Maverick Grove Rigsby Garden Street Madison Street Blum Street Victoria Street and Leal Street with prices and contact phones.
Numerous rental notices list four to seven room cottages and bungalows in La Semana area. Properties include Laurel Heights 117 Woodlawn five rooms, 301 Powderhouse five rooms, Tobin Hill district six rooms, and several two to three story residences with baths, electric lights, gas, and sewer connections. Rentals range from $6.50 to $30 monthly with options to lease, sale, or call for details.
R H Wester co lists numerous houses for rent in San Antonio with monthly rates from 9.00 to 60.00. Details cover 3 to 10 rooms, modern utilities, water or gas, and furnishment options. Also includes furnishing and unfurnished homes, cottages, and a partial list from Mrs. Gracie C Ramsey at 218-220 Gunter Bldg.
A long rental list shows multiple addresses in San Pedro Tobin Hill Beacon Hill and West End with rents from 7 to 75 dollars. Furnished homes and colored sections are included with brief notes on rooms lines proximity to car routes and utilities.
A long column lists multiple for rent houses and flats across San Antonio areas. Seven-room cottages on Frasch and Devine Streets are offered, with pricing and application details. Several four to six-room rentals include Tobin Hill, Army Post, San Pedro, and Hot Wells addresses, plus a large two-story flat at River Avenue. Commercial space notes and furnished options are also advertised.
A fragmented notice notes a swap of apartments and flats for a splendid medical library. It mentions Miss Smith and a care contact at Light, with unclear addresses or instructions.
A dense page of public notices and classifieds seeking rental property, rooms and board, furnished cottages, and general goods. Appears from Hal Hailey and the Richey & Casey rental desk listing contact numbers and addresses, plus various buyers paying cash for diamonds old gold and silver and second hand items.
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