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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1912
Page
12
Public help wanted notes list jobs and aid options from the Salvation Army Rescue Home and other listings. Items include female friendly shelter referrals at 3019 River Ave and 509 Ce St as well as employment and household help wanted across multiple addresses.
Male applicant from San Antonio Auto School wishes a job as a chauffeur or any position. Provides address 301 Light and notes graduation from San Antonio High School. Seeks daytime work, states nineteen years old, strong and industrious, lists 702 Baylor St. and 346 Light as contacts.
A collage of lost items and rental offers appears from a 19th or early 20th century classifieds page. Lost watch fob and a black phaeton are offered for reward, while numerous furnished rooms and housekeeping spaces are advertised near Alamo Street and the Alam o Plaza area. Local businesses Wagner's Drug Store and hotels advertise missing package recovery and room rates.
Numerous rental notices describe modern furnished and unfurnished flats and apartments. Listings include Lytle Flats near Joske's with three suites left, 420 St Marys furnished units with 30¢ North, 2018 Presa St four-room flats, Madison Apartments near Madison Square Park with five-room units at 25 monthly, and two fully furnished three-room flats at 418 South Presa with summer rates. Contact details and prices vary by property.
FOR RENT BUSINESS PROPERTY 908 BE Houston St corner store 60 905 B Houston St 35 FOR RENT LARGE BUILDING corner Plum and Iowa Sts Suitable for saloon or grocery EB BUSINESS HOUSE OPPOSITE SAP depot three car lines fine opportunity for restaurant 6 good living rooms upstairs if wanted L Simon old phone 444 ONE STORY BRICK BUILDING WELL lighted and ventilated corner Presa and Villita Suitable for any kind of business at small rent and lease Inquire 330 Montana St
WANTED-TO RENT THE MONEY PLACE CLOSE IN 615 SOL edad. Large comfortable rooms with every convenience home cooking summer rates. Old phone 3105. COUPLE OR TWO GENTLEMEN TO room and board private family country environments city limits. Old phone 7617. FIRST-CLASS ROOMS EXCELLENT meals private residence terms reasonable. 617 Ave B. Old phone 3064. WANTED-TWO GENTLEMEN OR MAN and wife to room and board southeast upstairs room. 2222 Buena Vista St. TWO LOVELY FRONT ROOMS WITH OR without board lovely neighborhood strictly private home close in. 222 Howard. Old phone 7772 or 7862.
For rent beeville cottage seven room cottage in suburbs with large yard fruit and flowers good location for rent at 15 dollars a month 307 care ight. LIST YOUR RENT HOUSES WITH US. Our rental department up to date and efficient. Richey Casey 426 Navarro Our phone 2236. WANTED HOUSES FOR RENT. WE ARE in position to take charge of your rental property and handle it to your advantage. Careful attention given to every detail your money remitted the day collected our fees very reasonable satisfaction guaranteed. Sam Howard Mgr F 85 Jones Asst Mgr RICHEY CASEY Rental Department. All Phones 2236 425 Navarro St. WANTED TWO OR THREE BEAUTIFUL furnished rooms for light housekeeping Post Office box 620. WANTED ROOMS BOARD Notice On June 11 12 13 the Christian Endeavor Societies will convene in this city. We wants rooms and board for delegates at the rate of 1 dollar per day for room and board or if unable to furnish both lodging only for 25 cents a night Notify L R Farr 135 Jackson St old phone 3586. WANTED BOARD AND ROOM WITH private family on Government Hill or short car distance from Military Post by middle aged man of good habits employed a good size room with sleeping porch preferred also board permanent if suited State particulars Reply at once 351 Light. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS BOWIE HOTEL 728 E HOUSTON ST Building and everything new clean and cool rooms with or without bath summer rates W C Morris proprietor. FOR RENT ELEGANT ROOMS SAME block Crockett hotel very cool reasonable Phone 6520 329 BE Crockett St.
A dense block of older rental notices lists rooms for rent and hotel summer rates across San Antonio. Properties include The St. James Hotel, Hotel Victoria, Bowie Hotel, National Hotel, and others offering cool, furnished or unfurnished rooms with private baths, running water, and proximity to points like St Anthony, Joske's store, and car lines.
Classified rental notes list multiple rooms and small houses for rent and near car lines, with details on baths gas electric light running water and varying rents from six to twenty dollars. The ads name numerous landlords and locations including Navarro Street, Camden Street, Houston Street, and Schley Avenue, inviting tenants.
A crowded list advertises eight foot modern showcase fixtures soda fountain parts a fireproof safe and other items. Also mentions fer ns for sale tolling of honey pups and two Edison dictaphones with trade options plus hay for sale and feed company offerings.
Little Chicken Feed Our Special makes chicks grow and keeps them active. Contact Old phone 1603 at 606 East Commerce St.
Local ads list numerous livestock for sale and purchase services. Horses, ponies, cows, and a Jersey cow are offered with contact details across multiple streets and phone numbers. Buyers seek gentle driving horses, farm animals, and animal care. Some ads note business closure and special prices.
Multiple San Antonio and Houston ads list autos, carriages, wagons, bicycle services, tire retreading, locksmithing, and hardware. Businesses include Thomas H. Carow EB, Paschn & Son, San Antonio Vulcanizing Works, Emerson the Bicycle Doctor, Pigott's Carriage Shop, Jack W. Neal, and a Studebaker wagon dealer at 3258 Florey showing promotions and contact details.
Classified note seeks daily sewing work or position as housekeeper nurse or traveling assistant with new phone 2782. Call for Mrs ner for details and employment opportunities.
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