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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1912
Page
14
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A dense mash of job listings and notices appears for San Antonio readers. Help wanted positions include stock salesmen, night school students, auto school attendees, solicitors, life insurance agents, barbers, clerks, drivers, colored rubbers, chauffeurs, and hotel staff. The page promotes guaranteed employment services and instructions on placing ads, with multiple business addresses and contact options.
Help wanted ads list female stenographers teachers storytellers housekeeper maid cook dressmaker apprentice and reliable help. Local employers seek experienced kitchen staff and domestic workers with contact details and old phone numbers.
A dense block of classified notices lists positions sought and rooms for rent. Entries include a gardener in San Antonio, chauffeurs, a physician seeking a location, a young colored man seeking work, bookkeeping and office work, and various furnished and unfurnished room rentals near downtown and South Presa. Some ages, addresses, and references are given.
Situations wanted notice from an experienced young woman stenographer seeking immediate employment. Address provided as 326 Light.
Classified notices show multiple rental offers and job seeker's ads including two large unfurnished rooms near town with hot and cold water, a four room upstairs flat at 619 E Crockett St, two unfurnished rooms near Magnolia and Agonier Aves, and other small listings. Additional help wanted items include a young lady stenographer, an expert bookkeeper, and a nurse for confinement cases. Phone numbers and addresses referenced.
For rent housekeeping rooms in a furnished unit at 307 South Cherry Street near the Southern Pacific depot. Light housekeeping allowed. suitable for single occupants seeking compact living space in a convenient central location.
A dated job ad notebook lists multiple hotel and domestic positions with wages such as cooks at $45 monthly, four carpenters at $3.50, four laborers at $45 monthly, four chambermaids at $6 weekly, and various other roles including waiters, ranch hands, dairy hands, and yard workers. Contact Plaza National Employment Bureau, Suite 509 Conroy Building, with old and new phone numbers for inquiries.
Classified notices show employment and domestic help offers from New York Star Dye Works and others. Listings include dressmaking, chamberwork, cooks, plus a Working Girls Mission shelter for disabled women and babies, with wage details and specific addresses in city.
Agents can earn substantial money selling Seadrift and Port O Connor lots on easy terms. Promoter promises a good proposition to reliable men. See Ford at 109 Ave. D, ground floor Gibbs Building.
Strayed Jersey cow with broken horn and front foot strap sought by W. R. Long at 219 Garza street. Lost small brown dog with ringed neck and white toes answers to Snooks, reward at 515 Austin St. Lost brooch made from foreign coins, reward by phone 4638 old. Lost Amethyst brooch. return to 301 Matagorda for reward. Lost Jersey cow and heifer calf. reward for return to 314 Warwick Boulevard old phone 6104.
Several neatly furnished rooms available in central San Antonio areas near ear line and Army Post. Includes front and back rooms with private baths, modern conveniences, telephony, private entrances, and close proximity to Joske’s, San Pedro park, and local streets. References and reasonable weekly rates offered.
A historic classifieds notice lists multiple rental options. Properties include a five room house on Dianola Street near Mission Drug Store, a four room and a seven room residence at Nicholson and Gunter Bidgs, a close in modern cottage on South Street, and a Belmont Street option with bath and barn. Contacts use old phone numbers 2523 2563 and 1790.
A dense list of rental options across San Antonio including modern eight room two story houses on Laurel Heights, six and five room cottages, modern apartments, and rooms with board. Listings show addresses on Presa, Laurel Heights, Roosevelt, North Flores, Olivo, Navarro, and more with prices from 20 to 50 dollars. Several agencies including Geneva Apartments, San Antonio Loan & Trust Co, Richey & Casey, Owl er Brothers and others advertise rental services. Availability spans single rooms, cottages, and first class hotel dining rooms with on line car service and nearby depots. Call numbers and office locations are provided for inquiries.
Various rental offers for five to seven room flats and furnished apartments in San Antonio. Properties include Evergreen and Elms developments with steam heat, janitor service, gas and electric utilities, garages, and storage. Also ads seeking white cotton rags, diamonds, old gold, and furniture services.
For sale a large Cary fireproof safe never used priced originally at 125 dollars now 98. Contact Roy Lightfoot at 313 Navarro Street old phone 2581.
A collage of brisk classified offers lists glassware, cane and rope, feed, seed, boats, pies, machinery, clothing, lumber, plants and more. Vendors include PANCOAST-MORGAN Co, Hast Commerce Feed Co, 8. J. Martin, San Pedrо Loan Co, T. B. White, P. L. Ward Machine Co, H. Morris Realty Co, and Dixie Furniture Co, with varied prices and old and new phone numbers.
Old ads offer eggs, fowl for sale, and poultry supplies. Listings include barred Plymouth Rock eggs at 1 dollar per 14, Indian Runner ducks, white Leghorns, Rhode Island Reds, buff Orpingtons, cockerels and hens with prices and contact phones across Fort Worth area addresses.
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