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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1912
Page
12
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Advertisers must place want ads by telephone only before 11 a.m. for daily and 10 p.m. for Sunday night. All indefinite ads require written orders and stop notices must be written. No telephone cancellations or additions. A stop order receipt will be issued when a classified ad is discontinued.
A collection of 1912 job notices lists positions for bookkeepers clerks and exam preparation at San Antonio Business College, a delivery boy, a short order cook, barber trainees, camp cooks for the country, life insurance agents, rye farming experience, and flour salesmen. Includes contact details in San Antonio and Monterrey Mexico.
A collage of want ads for female workers in San Antonio and nearby. Listings include Bee Candy Mig Co 711 Avenue B seeking female help, plus calls for housemaids cooks and a girl to demonstrate items on commission. Also offers for business college admissions and Salvation Army Rescue Home contact details.
Several classified ads list job seekers and services including a trustworthy man with railroad office experience seeking connections in wholesale fruit and produce, an experienced chauffeur seeking private family driving, an experienced grocery salesman aiming for wholesale or retail work, a bookkeeper stenographer seeking San Antonio placement, a refined young lady seeking companion or cashier roles, a widow seeking nurse or housekeeper work, a dressmaker offering day work, and a clothes washing service. Contact details and old phone numbers accompany each brief notice.
Wanted several energetic salesmen to sell a live and legitimate proposition in city or country. Experience unnecessary. Plaza Realty Co. Alamo Plaza contact numbers 3534. Apply 608 Gunter Bldg. Local and traveling positions offered with guaranteed salary and expenses. Los Angeles Products Co. advertising small town route with $35 weekly plus expenses.
Lost between Postal Telegraph on Commerce Street and the Menger Hotel a lady’s old watch with a Waltham movement a TY H charm on the fob and a gold vanity box with green stones monogram E L C. A medical medal from the Panama Canal Service with J M Wilke engraved is also listed. Return for reward to old phone 1841 or 104% Heiman Street.
A collection of lost items and rental notices including a lost gold buckle bracelet with contact, a lost white bulldog with distinct markings and reward, a set of lost keys with return to Frank R Newton, county clerk, and a sapphires bar pin lost with reward. Also numerous furnished room for rent notices with contact details and locations around San Antonio areas like South Alamo St and Tobin Hill.
Three unfurnished rooms with modern conveniences in a south front Nolan car area at 705 Burleson St. No children. Also three unfurnished rooms at 519 Lexington Ave Madison on Square district priced 13 dollars. Two unfurnished rooms for rent in good location at 601 North. Two unfurnished rooms wanted for light housekeeping near central area at 7815 Light.
Two to three rooms available with modern conveniences in 221 Lei h street and 405 West Elmira. Water and gas included in kitchen. Meals may be provided at the Lei h Street location.
Multiple listings offer nicely furnished light housekeeping rooms near Joske's and the Houston Street area. Options include single and connecting rooms with gas, electric light, hot water, and private entrances. Rent ranges from about 12 to 15 dollars monthly, with several places on Ave D, Third St, and 1st Elmira.
Classified notices offer multiple room and board options in private homes around San Antonio area. Listings include close in locations near J & G depot, Tobin Hill, Richmond Ave, and Madison Square Park with private families, home cooking, or meals, and various contact phones. Some emphasize strict first class hotels and special rates for regular boarders.
A crowded batch of rental notices across San Antonio streets describes diverse homes with terms like seven rooms five rooms and four rooms. Locations include West Commerce San Pedro Avenue San Antonio addresses with prices from 8 to 40 dollars monthly and various conveniences noted.
Local real estate ads list furnished and unfurnished houses for rent, sale, and cottages in various neighborhoods. Properties include five and six room houses, modern cottages, and manors with contact numbers and street locations such as Navarro Street, Alamo Plaza, Pereida Street, Camp Street, and Laurel Heights. Multiple agencies offer inspections and terms.
Multiple rental listings appear for eight to six room houses near Casino, Dawson and Market with modern conveniences and yards. Additional flats and cottages include names and addresses such as 603 W Elmira 314 W Carolina St and properties along 725 EB Commerce St.
Classified notes list rooming options including twenty unfurnished rooms with three baths on the second floor at the Colonial hotel corner E Commerce and Sycamore St with immediate possession and reasonable rent. Also seeks furnished houses, rental ads, and assorted sale notices for furniture, dirt deliveries, and a diamond and pearl brooch loan expiration.
A long list of poultry and fowl offerings includes eggs for hatching from various breeds such as White Leghorn, Barred Rock, Rhode Island Red, and Minorca at prices from 10c to $2 per setting. Multiple ranches and sellers list locations, contact phones, and farm names with eggs, day-old chicks, and mature stock available. Also advertised are furs, dogs, and other farm livestock items.
Classified notices list multiple female help wanted openings including a white woman or girl for cooking in a private family, general housework with room provided, a well dressed intelligent young lady for a short term assignment, and various inquiries at addresses such as Garden Street Richmond Avenue Main Avenue Madison Street and a company with Pancoast Morgan Co.
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