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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1912
Page
28
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Advertisers are informed that want ads may be placed by telephone only with numbers 176. Ads accepted up to 11 a m for daily and 10 p m for Sunday Light. All indefinitely running ads must be in writing. No US ads over phone. Discontinuations must be in writing. stop orders issued with the first ad.
Patricio Vallejo Jr. entered into rest March 15, 1912 at 11 55 p m in the thirty fifth year. Friends are invited to attend the funeral Sunday afternoon at 430 from his late residence 420 West Salinas St. Services will be held in San Fernando cathedral and interment will be made in San Fernando cemetery.
An Olter-style advertisement offers quick barber trade training at Moler Barber College 320 W Commerce St with tools and tuition. It promises rapid apprenticeship, nationwide reach, and employment help, citing many graduates and a 1393 establishment. Other listings seek assistants, auto school students, bookkeepers, delivery boys, cooks, and barbers with immediate openings in San Antonio and nearby cities.
Classified notices seek female workers for Bee Candy Mfg Co at Avenue B and a competent white cook with references at 326 Goliad St. Other ads push business college enrollment, a first class house girl at 139 Goliad St, and a Salvation Army Rescue Home invitation at 3019 River Ave. A New Life Furniture polishes home goods with commissions for four demonstrators.
A log cabin medicine case containing surgical instruments marked with KB Scull M D disappeared from the International Club on March 7. A $5 reward is offered at 605 Moore Building with no questions asked. Also a separate lost batch of keys to Crescent theater reported.
Numerous listings across San Antonio offer neatly or elegantly furnished rooms with bath, phone, and meals on request. Locations include South Alamo Street, Water Street, East Travis, Tobin Hill, and Goliad Street with options for couples, single men, or ladies and flexible meal services.
Three separate listings offer unfurnished rooms with modern conveniences. Addresses include 705 Burleson St and 619 Lexington Ave in Madison Square district, plus 601 North. One ad notes no children and another mentions a Nolan car in a youth front context. Rent amounts shown include 13 dollars in one note.
Several listings offer nicely or fully furnished housekeeping rooms with gas, hot and cold water, electric light, private entrances, and meals available at select addresses. Locations include West Elmira, Leigh Street, East Nueva, Third Street, West Elmira, Avenue D and Ripps Apartments. Space options show single and double rooms, two connected rooms, and proximity to public transport.
A collection of private house board offers listing locations near Tobin Hill Richmond Ave Lexington Ave and downtown San Antonio. Advertisements include two boarders needed house dining rooms reopened gentlemen and young men sought with options for rooms with or without board and home cooking at hotels and inns across Jefferson Soledad Soledad Ave and downtown streets featuring various prices and contact methods
A fragmented rental list shows numerous houses and cottages for rent in San Antonio area. Properties include seven rooms at 430 San Pedro avenue with $40 monthly, six-room cottages on Burleson and near car lines, and four to eight-room homes with various amenities. Listings note contact details for agents W. C. Sullivan, A. W. Bitter, and R. H. Wester Co. with prices from $7 to $50 monthly.
A fragment shows rental and business property ads including addresses on East and West Commerce and Bowie corner Houston, with rental figures and a loan/trade firm contact in San Antonio.
Business property notice offers entire floor space or part for rent at 903 Fast Houston Street, Good business location. Apply Y W C A 210 Ave D.
Listings offer two new four room units at 330 Laffitte and two to four room modern flats near Alamo Plaza and Houston Street. Also available are 725 E Commerce St and 612 E Quincy St units with private baths ground access and furnished options. Call old phones provided for details.
A string of classified notices seeks tenants and landlords in the city. Wording requests room and board with preferences, furnished houses, and light housekeeping rooms. Agencies offer to match tenants and renters, with multiple contact numbers and firms including Plaza Realty Co and Richey Casey Ramsey.
A jumble of classifieds asks for large white cot rag donations, high-priced used clothing and shoes, sacks for grain, old brass copper lead and rubber, diamonds and gold buyers, upholstery and drapery work, a phonograph repair request, jewelry and coin buyers, furniture buy/sell and repair services, and a large tent for a display. Also seeks a double seated buggy horse.
Advertising blurbs note sale items including matting from Dixie Furniture Co at 4113 N Plares and a daylight developing tank with outfit for a 3A Kodak never used at 7793 Light. Also bargains in watches and musical instruments from B May at 104 W Houston and expired loans offered.
For sale miscellaneous items including tomato plants at ten cents per dozen and other plants. Also offered second hand timer's tools and machines from D. H. Kirk land Christine Texas. Ford Staf fel 319 KE Commerce 81.
A long OCR advertisement page lists numerous poultry eggs for hatching including Barred Plymouth Rock Rhode Island Red and Leghorn varieties with prices per setting dozen or hundred. It also mentions baby chicks roosters and bantams for sale and notes other livestock and pets such as dogs and horses with contact details and addresses.
Wanted ad notes a nice family surrey available for cash at 916 Buena Vista Street. Also seeks a double seated rig at 109 Avenue D for purchase.
Various piano ads offer mahogany and ebony uprights including a new Emergon upright never used at 817 Starr St and a second hand Steinway bargain at 315 Sple nd St. Other offers include a new $350 piano cheap at 231 Rusk St and a Victorian area listing at 1031 Victoria A. South Heights car. Call 3889 old phone for terms or visit to view.
WANTED white girl for general housework good wages paid to right party German girl preferred. Old phone 6449. CARPENTER WANTS WORK BY CONTRACT to build or repair John Stimpfl 315 Scott St. TRUSTWORTHY YOUNG MAN 387 YEARS old wants position good penman and good at figures and a worker six years experience in railroad offices. Address 7628 Light. YOUNG MAN WISHES TO MAKE CONNECTIONS with wholesale fruit and produce house originally from the east has experience in buying selling distributing in car lots also acting farmers representative. Credentials from eastern house. Address Tizé Light. BOOKKEEPER AND ACCOUNTANT DESIRES POSITION familiar with duties of bookkeeper cashier paymaster cost accountant etc best references. 7781 Light. POSITION WANTED BY DOUBLE ENTRY bookkeeper thoroughly competent and experienced best references willing to leave city. 7780 Light. EXPERIENCED CHAUFFEUR WANTS position driving auto for private family will work cheap. Old phone 7469. RANCH OR FARM TWO SOBER STEADY young men wish to get work on ranch or farm. 7788 Light. AN EXPERIENCED RETAIL GROCERY salesman who knows city wishes position with wholesale or retail house or will accept position in another line of business. Old phone 4806. 7790 Light.
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