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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1912
Page
12
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A long column of help wanted notices from San Antonio and nearby Tex towns. Positions include auto shop students, tinner, shoe shiners, canvas maker, salesmen, packers, porters, cleaners, drug store clerks, blacksmith helpers, grocery staff, piano salesmen, butchers, hotel workers, drivers, carpenters, and many more. Plaza National Employment Bureau advertises employment services at Conroy Building Suite 509.
Classified ads list positions for maids, cooks, housegirls, and pressers in San Antonio area. Entries include age requirements, homes in Pflughaupt bakery and other locales, plus lost items and rooms for rent. Also notes on mission services and employment training opportunities.
Several neat new brick store buildings for rent at corner Fanks Rosa and Buena Vista. Also available are two office rooms at 216 Alamo Plaza Stein's Studio. Shoe shop for rent at 600 S Cherry. Three centrally located store and business rooms priced at 86 and 125 dollars. Richey & Casey, 607-509 Navarro Street. Phones: 2236.
Multiple listings for furnished and unfurnished apartments in San Antonio. Offerings include five room flats with large gallery for $756 yearly, six room flats with baths near transit, and Evergreen and San Pedro Ave locations with steam heat and janitor service. Contacts include Harvey L. Page Co
A columnist urges readers renting at 15 dollars per month to consider building a home instead. With a one thousand dollar construction cost and fifteen years of rent totaling 2700, ownership remains with the landlord. The note promotes Kuntz Albaugh Lumber Co at 823 Lakeview Avenue with both old and new phones for inquiries.
A dense classified page offers numerous rental ads and employment notices. Listings include furnished rooms and houses for rent near car lines, with prices, locations such as Navarro and Soledad streets, and mentions of managers and agents like Richey & Casey rental department. Additional items advertise vacancies in housekeeping and kitchen work at Matthews Cafeteria and households seeking tenants.
Unfurnished four room flat upstairs at 619 E Crockett Street and six room house near street car at 710 Monte na Street with barn and servant’s house. Also a close modern cottage at 609 South Street with five rooms and yard. A new four room cottage at 228 Dashiell Street with bath and barn. Sunset Loan Bank at 632 E Commerce Street buys men’s secondhand shoes and pants pistols old gold and silver and makes loans.
A collage of short classifieds shows multiple wants and offers. Listings include male for rent rooms in town with amenities, a Belmont Street four room house for rent, phone numbers, a chauffeur and mechanic seeking wages, a young man seeking a after 1 PM position, a married man seeking investment in business, and various job seekers including stenographer, insurance and real estate office experience, and a foreman seeking work.
Female situation wanted notices include experienced stenographers seeking positions with light work and reasonable pay. Many rooming and housekeeping options described with addresses and prices, ranging from furnished rooms to four room cottages near depots and business districts. Public notices list rental rates and contact details for apartments and houses.
Wanted experienced stenographer and office man in a large manufacturing plant No 873 Light Apply 207 Avenue Cc delivery man also sought references required Apply 207 Avenue Cc
Classified poultry and livestock ads list full blood barred Plymouth Rock eggs, Indian Runner ducks, Rhode Island Red hens and roosters, Jersey heifers, draft horses, carriages, fox terrier prospects, and various cages and equipment. Vendors provide prices, contact phones, and addresses across San Antonio area.
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