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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1912
Page
12
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Help wanted ads list male salesmen drivers cooks and waiters in San Antonio area. Includes firms Texas Air Motor Fan Co Deport and various local businesses seeking young men, students, and delivery drivers with references.
Multiple short help wanted notices seek cooks and a housekeeper in San Antonio area addresses include 529 Guenther, 2102 Buena Vista, Crockett St, Highland Park, and Terrell Road Alamo Heights. Preferences mention white or German speaking workers and family helpers with old telephone contacts.
A newspaper notice lists many help wanted messages: a seventeen year old with wheels seeks any assisting position. a sixteen year old strong boy wants training or a trade. a German auto machinist seeks a chauffeur job. a German graduate bookkeeper stenographer aged 21 seeks a stable firm with good references. a seller offers books to keep. R. E. Cornforth advertises San Antonio references for bookwork. a middle aged man seeks reliable work with references. a window cleaner offers services. delivery car operator seeks driving work. a collector position is offered with references. a bookkeeper with retail and wholesale experience seeks an office job.
Classified notices show multiple requests including a Working Girls Home seek for displaced women at 113 Porter St city with transport via South Heights car and old phone 6963. a Spanish teacher with diploma from a Mexican college at 226 Roseborough Ave old phone 5854. a widower or ill person care position at 641 Essex St South Heights car. a lady seeking demonstrator or traveling work at 109 Light. a 40 year old widow offering housekeeping for a widower or bachelor at 112 Bowers St San Antonio Tex. plain sewing and alterations at 723 N Flores St. a middle aged lady seeking hotel housekeeping with references at 224 Light.
Classified notices advertise agents needed for real estate and selling opportunities across Texas. Listings include H J Betson at Grand Opera House, a “Good Live Wire” fruit and oil proposition, Fuller Brush Co prospects in Fort Worth, and Esther Sex offering fast selling house work with competitive commissions.
Lost and found notices describe two young men missing or stray, a gold clasp finn inscribed Milites Bonam Militiam with M Wilson on back, located Laurel Heights May 12. A leather card case on Commerce Street between Navarro and Water contains $100. rewards offered to Roy Jones and C D at specified addresses.
Many neatly furnished rooms and suites advertised across multiple addresses including Alamo Plaza Presa St Crockett St and Avenue D offering private baths telephones and summer weekly rates from about 2 to 3.50. Hotels Savoy Alamo Victoria and Hotel Alamo feature outside rooms and meals. References to downtowner and corner King William areas as well as southeast and south heights locations.
A dense catalog of rooming options across San Antonio addresses including 1009 Wyoming St 1011 Wyoming St 3815 E Nueva St 411 Main Ave 3820 Broadway and more. Offers include unfurnished rooms with baths furnished housekeeping rooms with gas electric light water and private entrances near car lines and in private homes.
Classified notices detail numerous furnished rentals including five to eight rooms and cottages on West Commerce Street Tobin Hill Dwyer Avenue and E Commerce with features like sleeping porches baths electric lights and modern conveniences. Several listings include phone numbers old and new and requirements such as references and tenancy terms. Also advertised are typewriters for sale and service from GEO POTCHERNICK and related suppliers.
Furnished flats with gas electric water and lights at 420 St Marys and The Lytle Flats three suites near Joskes with private bath address 306 North Street for sale contents of a newly furnished six room flat walking distance to downtown ready to begin housekeeping at once 36 Light six rooms complete with silver and linen south exposure overlook garden one block from Menger summer rates apply Harvey IL Page Co phones for rent a seven room modern flat corner Thirteenth St and River Ave close in cool furnished apartments inquire 622 Avenue C
Multiple rental listings for storefronts and storerooms in Cleburne Texas. Properties include corner store space on Houston Street, four-room store suitable for grocer or saloon, a two-property package near Salado and El Paso Streets, a four-room store with a large living area above, a 28-room hotel near Santa Fe shops, and other office, storehouse, and newsstand spaces. Contact details for John W. Floore and A. W. Bitter provided.
WANTED TO RENT. LIST YOUR RENT HOUSES WITH US. Our rental department is up-to-date and efficient. Richey & Casey, 426 Navarro. Either phone 2236. WANTED HOUSES FOR RENT. WE ARE in position to take charge of your rental property and handle it to your advantage. Sam Howard, Mer. F. 8S. Jones, Asst. Mgr. RICHEY & CASEY Rental Department. All Phones 2236, 425 Navarro Strat
A dense compilation of classified wants includes requests for high prices for castoff clothing and accessories, jewelry purchases, sacks and packing materials, upholstery and drapery work, repair calls, collectors for old coins and metals, and various secondhand goods. Offers invite sending price quotes, delivering items to local offices, or visiting stores for estimates.
For finest tomatoes bedding plants palms evergreens roses and cut flowers and floral designs also blacksmith outfit materials Dakota Street New phone 6 Ice cold soda fountains pool tables saloon and butcher fixtures refrigerators supplies by Ed Friedrich San Antonio Texas prices and terms requested H A Moos relocated to 831 West Commerce Street Kampmann Building corner Soledad Street
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