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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1912
Page
8
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Advertisers may place want ads by telephone using both phones 176. Ads run indefinitely only if in writing. no telephone orders for t f ads. Discontinuation must also be in writing. a stop order receipt is issued on discontinuation.
The family expresses heartfelt thanks to friends for sympathy during the bereavement and for the beautiful floral offerings following the death of their daughter and sister Aurora Bobie.
Numerous help wanted notices appear from San Antonio and area, seeking assistants in jewelry, auto school attendees, shorthand students, language instructors, farm hands, clerks, shipping clerks, bakers, waiters, salesmen and barber students. Listings include business names, locations and contact details across downtown streets and colleges.
Classified ads list multiple employment notices. Positions include candy factory work at Bee Candy Mfg Co 711 Avenue B, hair dressing apprenticeship finishing course offered by Mrs Schmid 218 Pecan St, white house girl at 727 Main Ave, millinery sales room staff, sewing at home for Philadelphia firm Universal Co Walnut St, nursing helper and general housework posts, and traveling sales positions with several addresses and contact numbers.
Multiple notices seek returns and rewards for lost items and animals including a dark bay mare branded ONE, a stray or stolen list, a pointer puppy, a French poodle Rex, a light gray mare, and various personal items. Rewards offered. contact details list W D Terry, 315 West Nueva Street. 217 Soledad. Jesse Carger, 829 Cincinnati Ave. L. E. Austin, Collins Gardens. Washer Bros. J. H. Frost. Bexar Hotel. and local telephone numbers.
A historical ad list shows multiple help wanted notices including female and male labor, sales positions at Kepley Sample Shoe Co in Alamo Plaza, a dishwashing role at Beasley’s Mission Loop, a first class cook job with liberal wages, a housework and child care helper, a white girl aged 15 to 16 for housework, and a stenographer with a $60 starting salary, all with addresses and contact prompts.
A collage of situation wanted ads from a local paper includes male drivers seeking chauffeur jobs and auto work, a 28 year old seeks bookkeeper or office work with multilingual and strong accounting skills, various addresses on Light street, wholesale and retail sales posts, collectors or solicitors, a color male seeks chauffeur work, and a middle aged white man offers yardman and gardener services. listings show contact numbers and old phone references. The items reflect roles in bookkeeping office work driving warehousing and sales with preferences for relocation, references, and bilingual abilities.
A chaotic collection of lost valuables and rental listings appears. Items include a pale red jersey cow, small red pocketbook with eyeglasses and $6.30, a cream serge coat, glasses with chain, a gold watch monogram J.M.B., and multiple furnished and unfurnished room advertisements in San Antonio notes.
Classified notice advertising for rent unfurnished rooms including gas bath and light. Indicates location at 326 Omaha with one or two rooms available.
An assortment of furnished and unfurnished housekeeping rooms and connecting suites are listed across several addresses near major streets and transit lines. Offers include bath, gas, electric light, hot and cold water, with prices around ten to sixteen dollars monthly. Many are walking distance from key locations and lines, some with private family or refined settings.
Classified rental notices show multiple properties for lease across San Antonio area. Corner stores on East Houston Street priced at 50 and 35 dollars with age and household restrictions requested. Large Military Plaza building for April rental with freight elevator and remodel to fit tenants. Barber shop space on Main Avenue, office rooms on Main near Houston, two furnished housekeeping rooms, complete meat market for sale or rent, and other small suites on Main, Main Ave and Soledad.
Female nurse seeks position with satisfaction in Thorough experience reference available. House cleaning also desired by other listings. Practical nurse companion or housekeeper sought by widow. Dressmaker offers day sewing. Stenographer and colored woman cook ads. Refined lady seeks private family or hotel nursing or housekeeping role.
Numerous listings for rental homes across San Antonio area including five and six room cottages. Includes addresses on Garden Street Presa Street Dawson Avenue Navarro Street and McKinley Avenue with amenities such as modern conveniences baths gas electricity hot water and garages. Mixed rental terms from 20 to 50 dollars monthly with various lease lengths and proximity to car lines and downtown facilities.
Several furnished rentals listed with various room counts in San Antonio and Rogers Park Chicago. Properties include a nine room Laurel Heights house with horse facilities, a three room cottage near Harlandale bath house, a 301 Newell Ave unit, a five room fully furnished home on Carey Ave, a North Shore Chicago summer rental, and a thirteen room colonial style house in San Antonio seeking six months or a year. Contact details provided as old phone numbers and an address for Mrs. N. S. Cass in Rogers Park.
Energetic salesmen sought to sell a variety of propositions with no experience required for Plaza Realty Co at 333 Alamo Plaza. Also positions for specialty salesmen in wholesale and retail grocers and hardware dealers with referrals requested at 4229 Light, promising commission and independent territory for Pardridge's Liquid Court Plaster Co and Marvel Acetylene Generator Co in Topeka and Detroit.
Plaza Realty Co. advertises wanted furnished cottages of 6 to 8 rooms near downtown San Antonio with strong pay offers. Listings note Laurel Heights Tobin Hill and 333 Alamo Plaza with multiple contact phones. Other notices seek unfurnished 4 to 8 room cottages within reasonable distance of downtown and invite offers from owners.
Classified notice list offers for raised cash items and services. Buyers seek clean white cotton rags, second hand bicycles and general goods, shoe repair, upholstery, old gold and silver, diamonds, second hand furniture, sacks, brass copper lead rubber, and buzz fans. Local firms and contact details follow.
Hats cleaned for $1.00 and duplicate pay offered. Ice boxes wanted any size with contact options. Rooms papered from $4, sample service offered. Wants 5000 feet of second-hand lumber 2x8 or 6 inch sizes, state price and viewing location at 4222 Light or ge.
Umbrellas and parasols manufactured and repaired at 210 East Houston Street by Matti & Co. Unredeemed items and sample trunks and leather suitcases offered at a quarter of value. San Pedro Loan Co main office listed. Also seven secondhand sewing machines and two tailoring machines for $5 to $15 apiece. One forty horsepower steam engine and No. 5 centrifugal pump available from Fuller Machine Shops at 510 South Alamo Street. Old phone 1126.
Multiple notices advertise hatching eggs and stock from Buff Leghorns, Barred Plymouth Rocks, White Leghorns and Wyandottes in San Antonio and nearby towns. Prices range from 75 cents per setting to several dollars per 15 or 100 eggs, with buyers offering live stock, chicks, and incubators. Names include Van Raub, C. J. Rossy, William Rossy, E F enous R F D No. 2, Scholl Poultry Yards, and Seidel. Delivery and fertility guarantees are stated.
Live stock notice sells a Jersey cow with a young calf about four gallons from Fred Schooman at 1416 Jones Ave.
Numerous small ads list Dromgoole Bros jewelry on easy payments at 105 Houston Pt Olid phone 158 K. Also dozens of sale offers including billiard cues 50c each, movers and tools, cabinets partitions safes locks and furniture deals. Various livestock horses mules cows and wagons offered with contact details across San Antonio addresses.
Multiple recruitment ads offer agents and sellers opportunities across Texas. Listings include high class real estate agents through Hagelstein and Dickinson in San Antonio, a selling system by Transgard also in San Antonio, and broad opportunities for men women or children to earn by selling household articles via North Supply Co. in Austin.
Listings describe a seven room flat near Gunter hotel at $50 by F R Wesing 323 Soledad and San Jose Apartments at 741 E Houston offering five rooms with silver and linen for $75 per month. Also three room furnished or unfurnished flats on 314 W Carolina St near hotells car line and modern flats at 306 Baltimore Ave. Phone numbers included.
Plaza Realty Co at 333 Alamo Plaza and Richey & Casey at 425 Navarro advertise listing rental homes. Up-to-date rental department promises efficient service and both phone numbers are provided for contact.
Real estate ads seek tenants for cottages and bungalows in San Antonio. Plaza Realty Co. lists four and five room homes near Tobin Hill Hot Wells Marlborough Place and between the Fair Grounds and Exposition Park. Listings encourage landlords to list with Plaza Realty Co. at 333 Alamo Plaza or 3634 and call 3443.
Readable fragments show room and house rentals in multiple locations. Listings mention modern conveniences, large yard, and inquiries at various streets such as San Pavenue Soledad Mission Frost. Some lines are garbled but indicate vacancy ads and contact references.
Rental notice describes a five room bungalow with dern coniences at 1613 8 Presa St near Main Avenue. The ad mentions Bungalow $10 Tooms and references San Pedro Park and St Pie 1364-black in a terse distressed listing.
Classified poultry advertisement listing multiple breeds with prices for eggs and stock. Names include KL Kieffer, B Balisok, Chas. Haden with locations in Oldmptone Flores street Ladoni Texas. Offers cover White Plymouth Rocks Leghorns Minorca and Buff varieties with egg prices per 15 16 or 100 units. Includes phone numbers and street addresses.
F A Cocke advertises buying and selling horses harnesses and saddles cheap. contact via both phones at 4321 West Nueva.
Wallace Bros offer all styles of vehicles with extra poles shafts and tops and rubber tires. A few second hand jobs on hand. North side Main plaza. Wigwam Theater Walter Jones advertises a rubber tired top delivery wagon and a marble and oak private office fixture 5 by 10. Reinhart Co 215 Narp offers a light top delivery wagon cheap.
Several compact automobile notices and ads appear offering used cars and auto services. Listings include a Seven-passi mobile Autocrat with 3000 miles, a Chalmers 36 in near new condition, a light auto under $200, and requests for business card style auto guidance and parts. additional line items reference transmission services and manufacturing mentions.
South Heights car sale offers new Rudolf and Bausebony upright pianos. Secondhand pianos available with easy payment plans. Victor phonograph with 50 records priced at $301 and three large stand pianos lightly used offered at special bargain. Address 4145 Light Boulevard.
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