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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1912
Page
8
Rates list for one insertion per word ten cents with tiered discounts for consecutive insertions. Minimum monthly charge two dollars and twenty five cents. Ads under sixteen words counted as fifteen. Telephpone orders accepted at two phone numbers. The publisher reserves right to reject or revise objectionable copy.
Advertising deadlines state ads up to 11 a m for daily and 10 p m for Sunday Light. classified ads run indefinitely. Terms require written orders. telephone orders not accepted for display or termination. A stop order receipt is issued when a term ad is discontinued.
Louis Koenig died Friday at 1 30 p m. Funeral from residence 1193 eee Sunday at 3 30 p m. Friends invited.
A dense OCR of job ads offers roles across auto schools, stock sales, bookkeeping, clerical, labor, and service positions. Listings cite San Antonio firms like Plaza National Employment Bureau and various local businesses seeking drivers, cooks, janitors, stenographers, and many other workers with varied pay scales and conditions.
Numerous help wanted ads seek a white or German preferred cook and housekeeper for small families. Positions include live-in cooks, washerwomen, general housework, and skilled roles in several locations with good wages and references. Also listings for stenography training and office help.
Several classified ads seek employment including a male bookkeeper and accountant, a chauffeur with private family experience, a young man with business experience, an experienced office seeker in San Antonio, a lumber yard position, a mechanic for machinery repair and engines, a chauffeur and mechanic with 10 years’ experience, and a bookkeeper fluent in German English and Spanish seeking new work with strong references. Addresses listed in Light newspaper.
Situations wanted notices listing a young lady seeking cashier or office work at 461 Light, another seeking chambermaid or housekeeper at 462 care light, and a lady bookkeeper and stenographer with seven years’ experience offering services in or out of the city. Old phone 2183.
A white fox terrier with brown ears and a scratch on the cheek is missing from 1122 Essex. The dog answers to Gipsy and a reward is offered for its return. Other notices include various room rentals and lost items with rewards, including a brown spaniel at 420 Oakland St and a gold watch engraved J G S, with returns promised for rewards.
Numerous rental ads list five to eight room houses and cottages across streets such as San Jacinto Comal Beacon Hill and Belmont St. Properties include modern cottages with garages and barns, servant quarters, and proximity to streetcar lines. Contact numbers and agent names like Nicholson Furnish & Smith appear with addresses such as 404-408 Gunter Bldg and 815 N Comal for applications.
For Rent furnished houses wanted large clean white cotton rags pay three cents per pound to light office cash paid for diamonds old gold and silver foreign coins and mutilated coins two dollars for American gold dollars old jewelry taken in trade for new get our estimate new phone 676 Alamo Jewelry Co 315 Alamo plaza opposite the Alamo wanted upholstery and drapery work Household Furniture Co 214 216 W Commerce St five or six horse power gasoline engine in good condition F D No 7 Thos Dillon box No 100 will pay cash for men's secondhand shoes and pants pistols old gold and silver money loaned Sunset Loan Bank 632 E Commerce St
Apartments and flats with five rooms and gallery, gardens, fully furnished at 75 dollars monthly by year. Harvey L. Page Co. 741 E Houston St. Also furnished unit modern with gas hot and cold water electric lights at 420 St Marys St.
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