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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1912
Page
12
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Help wanted notices seeking male young men for practical auto school with promises of good positions and high pay. Also a middle aged man needed for farm work at 1025 8 Alamo St with old phone 1526.
Classified notices call for expert carriage writers painters and benchmen plus summer courses in telegraphy bookkeeping and shorthand. Jobs include a first class carriage painter in Houston with weekly pay and a farm hand position with housing in Linton Texas. Also seeks a barber trainee a stenographer with legal document experience and teams to haul gravel. Contact Light and local addresses for details.
Help wanted ad shows Joske's seeking experienced staff and a good canvasser and paper hanger. Apply in person at 500 block in yy Ave. contact Mr. Nix. Plaza Employment Bureau lists miscellaneous wages and hotel staff placements.
A flood of help wanted notices and personal ads appears, listing positions from salesladies, cooks, nurses, and houseworkers to clerks and a banking position. The listings include descriptive requirements, locations, and contact details across several streets and old and new phone numbers.
Multiple rental notices offering furnished rooms with various amenities across addresses 807 Dallas St 1614 Matamoras St 1218 S Laredo St 109 Stieren St 811 Sixth St 216 South St 820 Ave d 213 Dwyer Ave and unfurnished options at 1009 Wyoming St 1011 Wyoming St 515 Fifth St Includes rates from 2.50 to higher and options with private baths dining access and proximity to transport Collected from Southeast front rooms and summer rates with private entrances and bath facilities.
A mid aged lady seeks a housekeeper or hotel position and is willing to travel or relocate. She offers Ref erences and is open to leaving the city. Also listed is a Spanish speaking stenographer and bookkeeper with dictagraph skills and rapid typing. Another notice seeks a first class restaurant or boarding house waitress. Other entries include a competent lady seeking any nice position and a light list item.
Classified notices sell agents wanted for real estate and sanitary products, plus numerous furnished rooms and housekeeping suites for rent in Fort Worth area. Listings include contact methods, locations like Grand Opera House, 225 Light, 315 E Nueva, and 628 W Myrtle with Old or New phone numbers.
Lost four large housekeeping rooms near car line at 322 Nevada. Lost Kappa Sigma fraternity pin between Fifth and Houston and Alamo plaza. Return to 608 Fifth St or call 2879. reward offered. Lost Kappa Sigma fraternity pin between Fifth St Alamo plaza and Houston St. Return to 608 Fifth St or phone 2879. reward. Lost bull dog three months old brown ear. lost on Main plaza. reward. Lost fawn and white bulldog terrier female. 10 reward. 234 Belmont Street. Lost automobile lamp Monday night on Avenue D or Josephine. notify A H Muir 615 Haye St. reward. Lost gray mare about eighteen hands high six years old brand on face white spot on tail. 5 reward for return to Sheriff Tobin. Lost Saturday two piece white linen skirt five buttons on each side. reward. return to Bessie Stevens 707 Mason. old phone 2919. Found on River Avenue part of auto speedometer. old phone 3610.
Multiple listings show furnished rooms, suites, and light housekeeping spaces for rent. Locations include Porter Street, San Pedro Avenue, Avenue C, The Columbia, Nolan Street, Carson Street, Blum, Alamo Plaza, Crockett Street, and Howard Elmira area. Options include single rooms, suites, front rooms, and housekeeping rooms with or without baths. Some ads mention rates and contact phones.
A dense classified list from the St. James area advertises summer rates at hotels such as the St James Hotel and Victoria, furnished rooms, and multiple room cottages. It notes private family boards, proximity to streetcars, and prices ranging from monthly to weekly for rooms, board, and light housekeeping.
A dense set of rental notices shows numerous four and five room cottages and modern apartments for temporary living. Listings include 620 Lexington Avenue four to five rooms with baths, 1212 N Flores Street four rooms, and 2003 Matamoras near Prospect Hill with modern utilities, plus several smaller cottages and flats in Tobin Hill and Garden districts.
6 room thoroughly modern flat with bath and instantaneous heater. furnished contents for sale or rent on very reasonable terms. Walking distance to downtown in fine neighborhood. sleeping porch. ready to begin housekeeping. Also four room single flat at 201 8 Presa St with modern conveniences. low summer rates at 206 Camden St. Old phone 1238.
Local classifieds list varied for sale items including a 25 keystone steam driller with 2000 feet capacity, a fresh Jersey cow and herd, team of work horses, a Go-Cart tire deal, and a law library. Also notices of cut flowers, a new boat cheap, and a Bowles Ponytorium shipping saddle horses to Mineral Wells. Contact box numbers and street addresses provided for each listing.
Second hand Underwood typewriter in good condition offered for sale at 315 Soledad Street. Limited details provided.
Jack W. Neal sells Studebaker buggies wagons harness hardware and implements at his new store 825 8S Mores. BF Cocke advertises buying and selling horses mules cows new and second hand vehicles harnesses and saddles. Palace Liver Stable lists hacks cabs family carriages phaetons Stanhope top buggies for sale. A two seated pony survey is offered for cheap at 422 Warren St and a light spring wagon and harness are available at 801 South Mittman St.
Several short notices seek a female clerk and general housework help, a competent woman for general chores, a cook, a nanny for two children, and a live-in washer with ironing duties. A local mission offers free shelter and an employment bureau open to women in need at 809 Carson St.
Piedmont coal offered by I. & G. N. Wood & Co at best prices with prompt city delivery. New phone 1716, old 943-ir.
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