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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1912
Page
12
A jumble of help wanted and room board notices seeking cooks house girls and general housework. Listings include positions at homes firms and ranches with varied locations and contact details such as Belmont Belmont Nolan McMullen Washington Place and Porter Street.
Several young men seek work including chauffeur ship clerk collector and city salesman with references. A 36 year old reliable man offers 20 years in office or sales and an aged watchman seeks home care. A plumber helper and a white chef cook with kitchen crew seek positions in hotel service.
A compilation of short help wanted notices includes a practical nurse seeking engagement in a doctor's office, a young German governess candidate offering full household assistance, a girl seeking light housework, a young lady seeking cashier or waitress work, and a middle aged German seeking housekeeping. Contact details reference old and new phone numbers and addresses on Light Street and West Florida.
Several energetic salesmen are needed to sell a live proposition in the city or country. Experience unnecessary. Plaza Realty Co. contact via phones 3634 and 333 Alamo Plaza.
Classified ads offer liberal commissions for men and women to handle the best advertised real estate proposition. Inquire H J Benson at Grand Opera House Building. Also listings seek loan agents for 5 percent simple annual interest with monthly payments on 1000 dollars. Apply W P Medders at 509 Gibbs Building San Antonio Texas. Also promotion of Titanic disaster book with photos and drawings offered by Geo G Clows Co Philadelphia.
A chaotic mix of lost items and a few find notices from urban classifieds. Items include a girl’s red bag, a class pin, a diamond ring, a gold bar pin, eyeglasses, a tortoise shell comb, a silver chain, and a branded bay mare, with rewards offered and contact addresses such as 520 Hays St and 918 Wyoming St. A found bunch of keys is also listed with ownership return details.
Listings describe multiple furnished and unfurnished rooms near Government Hill and the Joske’s area with electric lights, bath, and telephone. Options include two blocks from Joske's, 303 Fourth Street, and 1034 Ave D, all at inexpensive weekly rates.
A dense ad page lists numerous rental offers in San Antonio including hotel fare at Hotel Alam o and Hotel Savoy with summer rates from $2.50 per week. Rooms for rent include furnished and unfurnished options on Navarro St Pecan St South Presa and other streets with features like hot and cold water electric fans and proximity to car lines. Businesses advertise rental property management and services by Richey & Casey with a focus on tenants and property owners in the city.
Numerous listings advertise furnished and light housekeeping rooms across San Antonio. Rentals include private baths, gas and electric, hot and cold water, and proximity to Joske's, Beethoven Hall, and San Pedro park. Notes show blocks from Joske's, Alamo Heights options, contact numbers and street addresses such as 316 San Pedro Ave and 528 W Myrtle.
Advertisements for hotels and boarding houses offer rooms with board from five dollars a week. Locations include 359 E Commerce 8 St Grand Central 1410 W Commerce, 603 North St, 511 San Pedro Ave, 1022 Main Ave, 309 Blum St, 205 Garden St, 403 Idaho St, and 127 E Guenther St. Also seven room house for rent near San Pedro and a private family board for two gentlemen. Newsroom tone and form echo early 20th century classifieds.
A lengthy classified notice lists numerous rental offerings in the city. Properties include five to eight room houses, cottages, modern flats, near car lines, with rents from 6 to 40 dollars monthly and various utilities. listings mention Old phones for contact and multiple streets such as Riverside Park, Laurel Heights, and Madison Square district.
Multiple listings for furnished and unfurnished apartments in San Antonio. Includes five room units, four room flats, two elegant flats with reception hall, Geneva Apartments at 317 East Commerce, and descriptions of amenities such as gas ranges, hot water, screens, and proximity to Joske's and St. Mary’s area. Contact details with old telephone numbers provided.
A fragmented rental notice lists properties on East Houston Street and West Commerce Street including a corner store at 908 East Houston 8th Street, offices at 905 East Houston, 126 Losoya, 206 Moore Ridge, and 514 North Laredo with spaces for carpentry painting or auto storage. Contact A W Bitter A A Gray & Co or use light telephones 176 201 for inquiries.
A jumbled collection of real estate requests and sale offers from a local newspaper listing rental leads for Plaza Realty Co and Richey & Casey, terms requested for a five to six room cottage, plus numerous small ads for scrap iron tools plants safes and services including watch repair and bookkeeping courses.
Lady with two small children seeks two furnished rooms with bath or a small cottage close in. Respond to C. Groze, General Delivery.
Classified notices list buyers for hats clothes jewelry and secondhand items. Ads seek clean cotton rags phono exchanges upchurching and various farm poultry and feed items with contact details and premises in Houston Texas.
Listings include registered Jersey cows with calves for sale and at least four more cattle options. Also offered are pasture services and hauling teams, a steam engine pump, and machine shop equipment. Additional notes include room papering and small printing services.
Rates listed per word for consecutive insertions with discounts for longer runs. Telephone ad placement available with specific hours for daily and Sunday editions. Publishers reserve right to reject or revise copy and require written orders to run indefinitely or discontinue ads.
Help wanted ads seek male helpers drivers stenos bricklayers and salesmen. Jobs include bread baker at Pflughaupt bakery Plum and Victoria Streets, a young colored waiter, two bricklayers at 1500 San Pedro Ave, a general farm worker at Herman Heimer San Antonio Route 2, and corset fitter at Washner Bros alteration room. Also salesmen for Burlington Repair Works and advertising solicitors. Old phone numbers and addresses mentioned.
Classifieds list multiple help wanted notices and services including a Salvation Army Rescue Home invitation at 3019 River Ave, shorthand and language course ads,ishing job postings for cooks, housework, maid, and sewing work, plus a free employment bureau at 509 Carson St and other employment opportunities and ads across several addresses and names.
Rental notice listing numerous houses for rent with addresses, room counts, and monthly prices. Properties include mod and cot configurations, several two story dwellings, furnished options, and one store front listing. Names Sam Howard and F S Jones appear as agents with contact phones.
Jack W Neal advertises Studebaker buggies wagons harness hardware and implements at his new store 26 Stores inviting customers to visit for quality rural goods and farming supplies.
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