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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1912
Page
12
Classifieds reveal multiple openings from San Antonio Auto School to barber training and farm work. Listings urge steady pay, training, and placement help with firms like Pflughaupt bakery and Alamo Stable, plus opportunities for drivers, traveling sales, and skilled trades across San Antonio and Dallas areas.
A rapid-fire classified page lists many help wanted items for women including cooks housemaids seamstresses and companions. Ads request experienced kitchen staff white women for housework and a private shorthand course alongside a mission employment bureau offering free aid. Also urged are domestic helpers for hotels ranches and small families with various contact details and addresses.
A cursorily readable collage of situation wanted notices lists multiple young men and women seeking various positions. Chauffeur, collector, shipping clerk, salesman, window trimmer, nurse, governess, cashier, housekeeper and office girl appear with brief self descriptions and contact references across a series of short lines.
Advertises several salesmen needed to sell a legitimate proposition in the area. Experience not required. Contact Fiaza Keay at 644 Ramo Plaza or call 833 for details.
A jumble of lost items listed with rewards continues, including a four year old bay polo pony unbroken, a small uncarved diamond ring, a gold bar pin engraved IL A. H., eyeglasses on West Houston Street, a tortoise shell comb, a silver chain with chatelaine, a bay mare branded N. Y. T. and a gold locket with initials H. W. R. Return to specified addresses or agents for liberal rewards. Also ads for furnished rooms near the Oliver Cafeteria.
Multiple listings advertise furnished and unfurnished rooms for rent in San Antonio. Hotels highlight summer rates and amenities such as baths, telephones, electric light, and central locations near Joske's, St. Anthony, and Tobin Hill. Listings specify weekly or monthly terms and include house keeping options and contact details.
A classified notice lists multiple boarding options and rooms for rent including Fairmount and downtown addresses. Entries feature hotels, furnished rooms with board, single rooms, and cottages with weekly or monthly rates, phone and location details, and notes on meals and proximity to car lines. Readable items emphasize price ranges and accessibility for tenants.
A dense sequence of rental ads lists numerous properties in San Antonio and nearby areas. Listings include six to eight room houses and cottages with varying rents from $6 to $60 monthly, furnished or unfurnished options, proximity to car lines and depots, and several addresses such as 318 Burnet St 701 Chestnut St and 209 W Mistletoe Ave along with Old phone numbers for inquiries. Rentals emphasize modern conveniences and proximity to transit, with rental agents Sam Howard F S Jones and Richey & Casey offering services.
Apartments and flats available including up-to-date five-room units, furnished or unfurnished with gas range, hot water, bath, screened porch and disappearing beds. Located at 317 East Commerce near Joske's and 420 St. Marys with private, convenient amenities. Phone numbers 6924 32940 or 3815 listed.
Classified notices advertise rental space at 903 East Houston 8th Street corner store for 50 dollars and 905 E Houston Street for 35 dollars. A. W. Bitter offers 102 West Commerce Street space suitable for an office, carpenter or paint shop with or without advertising. A. A. Gray & Co. lists 514 N Laredo Street shop or warehouse possibly for autos. Telephone numbers 201 and 176 for contact.
Local notices advertise rental listings from Plaza Reality Co. and Richey & Casey. Requests include two furnished rooms or a small cottage by a woman with two children and housing offers in the Navarro Street area. Firms promise up-to-date rental service, careful handling, and quick remittance of funds.
Numerous classified notices seeking second hand hats diamonds gold and silver watches furniture stoves and tools. Offers include cleaning, repair, screen work, pistol buying, car shipments, sacks, lawn care, piano care, and wood selling. Includes multiple business names and addresses on Houston Avenue Alamo Plaza Commerce and nearby streets.
Live and dressed poultry available including turkeys chickens ducks and geese. Delivered to any city location. Prices reasonable. Jacob Brandt 1160 Roosevelt Avenue. Old phone 2747.
Multiple ads promise jobs and loans in one section. H J Benson seeks agents for real estate with liberal commissions and no experience needed at Grand Opera House building. W P Medders advertises a six percent simple interest loan program with monthly payments for names, property, or mortgages in San Antonio. Also includes a department store promotion for a Titanic disaster book by Geo G Clows Co with photos and drawings offered from Philadelphia at low price and commission.
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