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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1912
Page
12
Ads accepted until 11 a.m. for the daily and 10 p.m. for the Sunday Light. Advertisers must place all indefinite notices in writing. No telephone orders for classified ads. Stopping orders also require writing and are not accepted by phone. A stop order receipt is issued when a t. 2. ad is discontinued.
Help wanted ads list male applicants for practical auto school barbering stenography painting dairy work ranch hand band members and sales roles. Positions include farm laborer dairy hand barber college student prospects painters canvassers and a married couple for farm and house duties with varying wages and locations in San Antonio and nearby Texas towns.
Help wanted notices offer women to call at Salvation Army Rescue Home and seek jobs in cooking housekeeping nursing and general work. Listings include white women sought for cooking and care positions with old and new phone numbers and addresses across several streets.
Classified notices reveal multiple help and service requests. Jobs include a cook German woman preferred, two Mexican solicitors, a live-in housekeeper for washing and ironing, and active openings for salespeople in linens dress goods ready to wear and muslin underwear at Josefe's fourth floor. A mission offers shelter and free employment help for girls and women in need. Locations include 201 W Houston St 208 Grand View Place Madeline Terrace 917 W Poplar 509 Carson St and Josefe's. Old phones 1841 3040 and 3317-J noted.
A mix of short classified notices seeks employment. A Belgian man requests a banking position with top references. A young man aims to take the bar and seeks summer work. A German graduate bookkeeper looks for a reliable firm with good references. An old couple seeks a light-work home. An advertising man offers affordable ad writing and design services. A colored chef cook seeks hotel or restaurant work. A shipping department worker seeks morning labor with strong references.
Medium sized classified batch listing women seeking work as housekeepers stenographers waitresses and child care. also multiple furnished rooms for rent with kitchen bath and summer rates. Includes addresses and phone where available and old contact numbers.
Classified clipping shows multiple ads seeking agents with liberal commissions and no experience required for real estate and products, also listing rooms for light housekeeping in Fort Worth area and nearby addresses. Ads reference H J Benson Grand Opera House building and Fuller Brush Co. contact methods.
A jumble of lost items and found animal notices plus numerous hotel and room rental ads. Notices include a lost fawn and white bull terrier, a gray mare, two mule and horse seizure, and various rewards. Ads offer furnished rooms, housekeeping, and hotel room options across San Pedro, Mesquite, Alamo, and downtown locations with phones and rates.
A long row of rental notices lists multiple properties in San Antonio area. Includes four and three room houses on Olive Street and Camargo Street, six room cottages near Tobin Hill and Prospect Hill, modern apartments at 620 Lexington Avenue, and other cottages near Garden Street and Shavano-adjacent streets with details on rooms, baths, porches, and rents. Also notes colored-only housing entries and car-line proximity.
Rental department of Richey and Casey lists numerous furnished and unfurnished houses for rent in San Antonio area. Properties vary by rooms from 4 to 12, with prices ranging from 15 to 100 dollars monthly, including colored listings at 214 Sandmeyer. Listings specify addresses such as Navarro Street and various avenues, with management by Sam Howard and assistant manager F. Jones.
Multiple listings offer three to six room suites with private bath and modern conveniences. Locations include 306 North Six, 741 E Houston, 420 St Marys, 106 West Pecan, 201 S Presa, and 205 Camden with rates and contact details for Harvey L. Page Co Washer Bros and others.
Multiple rental notices list storefronts at 903 E Houston St and 905 Houston St with prices 60 and 36 dollars. Additional spaces include two upper floors near Wolff Marx building for offices or rooming house, a pair of large connecting rooms near San Fernando cathedral, a store room in good location, and sixth floor offices with south and east exposures in the Gunter Building. Contacts include J P Lovelady, 1180 W Commerce St. Albert Aystein, 109 Galan St. and phone numbers Old 2667 and Old 3828.
Richey and Casey advertise a rental department ready to manage properties. They offer up to date service, quick remittance, and reasonable fees. Contact 426 Navarro or phone 2236 for listings and rentals. The notice also promotes other services and sales including ice boxes and upholstery work.
Reinforced sanitary cement water troughs offered at 804 Roosevelt Ave. by Roberts' Sthel. Cheaper than wood, along with Grecian lawn vases and cement blocks. Old phone 2328.
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