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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1912
Page
18
Classifieds list numerous positions including sewing and yard work, chauffeurs, salesmen for Riviera land plots, messengers, boys for shoe shining, stock and shipping staff, retail crockery sales, delivery duties, and a German house girl. Several employers offer steady work, training, and wages. some include contact details like addresses and phone numbers.
A dense classified list seeks female workers for pressing ladies fine garments at New York Star Dye Works. It also lists positions for cooks, housekeepers, stenographers, dressmakers, and general help with various wages, locations, and contact details across multiple employers and addresses.
A Lima Ohio listing shows Ira E Clum and son plan to reach San Antonio late October seeking gardener work. Other notices offer a chauffeur position, bookkeeper and office work, physician’s location request, expert bookkeeper, a 34 year old contractor painter seeking new fields, and a colored man seeks cook work at hotels or cafes with references.
A page of 1822 classified notices includes rewards for missing animals and items such as a white hind with a left leg missing, a black mare, a parchment parasol handle engraved with L. E. R. and Ragsdale. Also listed are numerous room-for-rent ads, furnished houses, and hotel accommodations around San Antonio Texas, with prices and contact hints.
Several listings offer modern furnished six and five room cottages with garage or stable near Nolane and Burnett, and rooms with board from private families. Prices range from economical to forty five dollars monthly for a six room house. References and phones provided for each listing.
Several brick store buildings for rent at Santa Rosa and Buena Vista with midrange rents. Also rooms and storerooms on Navarro Street and Hicks Building with various prices and contact Richey Casey and others. Includes office space in Moore Building and a large barn with river frontage near South Flores car line.
Several listings describe completely furnished five room flats with modern amenities. Properties include large gallery and private bath, gas and electric lighting, instant heaters, and garages. Locations cited include Laurel Heights and Ave C with rates around 40 to 75 dollars monthly by year, with references to Harvey Page Co and Nicholson Furnish & Smith.
Wanted to rent notices show rental agency Richey and Casey offering property management and tenant requests for a four or five room cottage near Hot Wells, plus two adults seeking one to three unfurnished rooms within walking distance of the courthouse or car line. Names and contact details included.
Numerous classified requests and offers appear, including purchase of white cotton rags at three cents per pound delivered to the light office, cash for diamonds and old gold, jewelry and coins, upholstering and drapery work, repair phonographs, and various sale items from hardware to furniture. Multiple business names and addresses listed across San Antonio, including Alamo Jewelry Co and William N Capurro.
A mixed page of classified adverts offers barred Plymouth Rock eggs at $1 per 14, Rhode Island Red and Leghorn stock, buff Orpington hens for sale, Brah Plymouth Rock cockerels, canaries, Indian Runner ducks, and incubators with brooders. Listings include contact methods at local phone numbers and addresses such as 602 River avenue and 127 Krempkau.
Classified notes offer to buy and sell horses mules cows and vehicles with contact details across locations including Rogers Street Nacogdoches Street Alamo Heights and Broadway. Items include a good Jersey milch cow a small mule and horse a match team of young mules and a phaeton with trades possible and calls for fast response.
Emerson the Bicycle Doctor offers new and second hand motorcycles from Pierce Arrow and Indians. Bicycles on easy payments with working locks. Ben L. Miller Co. advertises lawn mowers sharpened and bargains on hand. See us before buying Dayton bicycles.
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