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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1912
Page
12
Rate schedule outlines insertion costs per word with multiple schemes. It covers monthly rates, minimum charges, objection policy, and written orders for indefinite or telephonic ads with stop orders and discontinuation rules.
Multiple job notices seeking assistants, clerks, salespeople, and service staff. Listings include ages and quotas, notes on bilingual ability, specific workplaces like Joske Bros and Malone Dairy, and locations such as 109 West Sixth St Austin and 322 E Commerce St. Text shows varied employers including Lange Soap Co and American Townsite Co with explicit cash and references requirements.
A dense collection of mid century help wanted notices seeking cooks housemaids shirt makers alteration staff and sales or performance roles. Employers offer good pay and housing with multiple locations including Garden St Blanco Rd Main Ave Commerce E Commerce Richmond Ave and Alamo Heights.
A garbled collection of help wanted ads and personal notices lists individuals seeking work in grocery sales bookkeeping farming chauffeuring and domestic service. It includes addresses in Galveston Hempstead San Antonio and Beacon Hill with multiple phone numbers and reference to a nurse farmhand and house duties.
Classified item listing several job ads: energetic salesmen to sell a live proposition in city or country with Plaza Realty Co contact numbers. Johnson Shirt Factory seeks order-takers for custom shirts. traveling managers and local positions advertised at weekly pay with office room application in Central Office Building.
Domestic Vacuum Co seeks agents for sales opportunities at 233 Houston Street. Strong commission, flexible hours, and immediate engagement offered. Applicants encouraged to contact the firm for details and qualifications.
A collage of lost items including a small black purse with $12 to $13, a long black overcoat, keys, a gold pin with initials, and a gold watch. plus stray horse, ballet slippers, and numerous furnished room rentals with prices and locations around San Antonio. Rewards offered for returns. contact numbers and addresses provided.
A dense list of rooms for light housekeeping across multiple locations. Entries include furnished and unfurnished options with rents, addresses such as 302 Idaho S, 404 Soledad, 815 East Nueva, and 619 Pine. Some notes mention baths, gas, electric light, and proximity to depots or streets like Mesquite and Rusk.
A collection of lodging notices lists rooms for rent with or without meals near hotels like the Menger and St. Anthony. Offers include two young men to room and board near 436 S Presa, gentlemen boarders at 700L Live Oak, and private-family rooms near Tobin Hill and Lexington Ave. Prices mentioned include 45 dollars for two with no illness, plus miscellaneous daily options at local eateries.
Multiple rental offerings including seven room house at 430 San Pedro avenue with bath servant room and modern conveniences for 40 dollars monthly to a permanent responsible party. Also 315 Soledad street, Schulers space at 102 West Commerce Street after March 1 with a space privilege likely to cover rent for 50 dollars. A W Bitter contact and listings for 908 East Houston Street corner store at 50 dollars and 905 East Houston Street at 36 dollars. Two upper floors at 134 Soledad near Houston Street rented for club rooms rooming house or general business by Albert Arstein. The Bond-George Hardware Co building at Military Plaza Nos 619-621 available April 1 after remodeling. agent Ross W. Davis.
Apartment listings note modern two and three room units priced 18 to 25 dollars within walking distance of Houston Street and on Elmira and Commerce areas. Several properties feature private baths, roof gardens and grounds with various amenities and contact numbers.
Multiple rental listings include Colonial hotel second floor with twenty vented rooms and three baths, corner Commerce and Sycamore Streets, possession now. Also three large rooms with private bath and heated lighting, 817 Nolan Street, and 380 Lafitte four room apartment near Alamo Plaza with bath. Elegant furnished flat five rooms at 741 East Houston Street in San Jose district. Contact W. P. Lobban, 711 Gibbs Building. 505 Goliad. or H. L. Page Co.
A crowded assortment of old rental notices lists properties for rent including a five room house on Burnet St a four room cottage near town and a seven room house near Herff school. Contacts include Hickey and Casey Gottlieb Grob Roy Lightfoot and H C Thurman with various local addresses and old telephone numbers.
Readable classifieds show multiple rental offers including six room and eleven room boarding houses in Cheyenne near River Ave and Main Ave. Also listed are five to six room cottages for sale with low down payments and swap offers. numerous ads for second hand goods, clothing, hats, and jewelry, and a long poultry and livestock trading section with egg prices, stock, and breeding notes.
Live stock buy and sell horses mules cows and new and second hand vehicles harnesses and saddles cheap. F A Cocke contactable by phones 321 West Nueva Laurel Heights for rent modern nine room home. Also two story three room cottage furnished or unfurnished 328 Nevada St and cottage six rooms and hall Camp St with reasonable rent Old phone 476.
Ten day sale offering deep cuts on all items priced in dollars and up. Paints, oils, and hardware like whips, knives, axes, locks, ladders, and lawn equipment advertised. Upright pianos and second hand Steinway available with easy payments. Location hints include 1031 Victoria and 315 Sol eda St with contact for details.
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