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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1912
Page
27
Rates for ads include single insertion per word four consecutive insertions and longer. Monthly and Sunday rates offered with a $2.26 minimum monthly charge. The paper may reject or revise copy and ads must be in writing for indefinite runs. No phone orders for new or discontinued ads. Stop orders require a written receipt.
Card of thanks extends appreciation to friends neighbors and lodge members for kindness during illness and death of husband and father Sophie Nicker son George V Nickerson and family J B Curren signatories.
A dense classifieds page advertises numerous employment opportunities in San Antonio and surrounding areas. Listings include auto school attendees, fig orchard sales agents, teachers, clerks, bakers, drivers, barbers, bookkeepers, draftsmen, yard workers, and factory labor. Many ads request prior experience, references, or German language ability, with contact details across local streets and business addresses.
A long list of Vera cram jobs and notices seeks female labor in San Antonio. Listings include pickling factory work, housework, cooking, nursing, pressers, bookkeepers, sewing by hand and machine, laundress tasks, and general domestic roles with varying wages and hours. Also requests for travelers to sell corsets and office workers with stenography and bookkeeping skills. Many ads require references and some offer training or confidential replies.
Male storekeeper with clerical skills seeks fixed or temporary work. Speaks Spanish. references available. Contact 218 Romana St or Light 176 for telephoned ads.
Richey and Casey advertise houses for rent at 507 509 Navarro Street managed by Bam Howard and Hal Hatley with phone line 2236.
Several items reported lost or found include a male Fox Terrier named Bingo with a white body and brown face, lost between Moore Building and Travis Park church area with a liberal reward. A turquoise Mexican pendant in silver was lost between Jones Millinery and Washer’s on Commerce Street with return to Light office. An auto was found and inquiries directed to Reliance Cycle Co. A gold cuff button with initials Donsume and an open face Hamilton watch with leather fob were reported missing with returns to address holders for rewards.
NEATLY FURNISHED HOMELIKE rooms with bath and telephone $2 per week two blocks from Joske's 304% 8. Alamo St. CLOSE IN NEWLY FURNISHED front room separate entrance $2.50 week 214 E Quincy FOR RENT NICH FURNISHED ROOM 504 Chestnut St.
Numerous rental notices for housekeeping rooms and small suites across San Antonio neighborhoods. Many rooms offer modern conveniences, hot and cold water, and semi furnished options near Downtown, Tobin Hill, Beacon Hill, Alamo Heights, and Government Hill with varied rents and contact numbers.
Multiple listings describe furnished and unfurnished rooms for rent in San Antonio area. Options include upstairs front rooms with private baths, with or without board, near shops and car lines, plus single rooms for one or two gentlemen or couples. Various addresses provided with contact notes and phones.
A dense listing of rental offers across San Antonio areas including Madison Square Richmond Avenue Avenue B Nacogdoches Street and several other streets. Highlights include furnished and unfurnished rooms and houses with modern conveniences, board options, and various rents from ten to eighty dollars per month.
Numerous listings for houses and cottages for rent in Riverside Park and nearby areas. Properties include modern four and five room homes, furnished options, car-line access, gas and electric service, and multiple amenties with monthly rents from 8 to 86 dollars. Conroy & Rice and FOW BROS LAND CO advertise through local offices.
A flood of rental notices lists four to eight room cottages and houses across San Antonio areas. Properties include 1618 North Pine 1460 blocks and nearby streets with prices from 13 to 20 dollars monthly. Listings note modern amenities baths garages sewers and car-line proximity with various owners and agents contact inquires.
Two four-room flats, modern and newly occupied, upper and lower, available for $35 and $40 per month. Also a well furnished three room apartment with bath and southeast exposure near Tobin Hill, half block Tobin Hill car, $9. Laurel. Apply Wigwam theater, new phone 1884.
Classified listings show a flood of positions from clerks bookkeepers and office workers to a grocery clerk and an elderly executive seeking work. Housing ads advertise furnished rooms near rail lines with varying amenities and rents in the same urban area.
Situation wanted ad from Light newspaper listing a female public stenographer and notary available at 831 Gunter Ride with old phone 64. Also notes a stenographer and switchboard operator capable of regal and commercial work and substitution, with old phone 4828. Another entry shows an experienced teacher seeking governess position with references and address 996 Light.
A large known company plans a $100000 advertising blitz and seeks bright men or women in every town for sales reps. Immediate salary plus valuable prizes, including automobiles, with no prior experience needed. Also ads for Waks Handy Case and luminous crucifix product with high profits and free samples.
Classified notice listing several unfurnished room rentals and a couple seeking three rooms. Locations include 1009 Wyoming near 8 P. depot, 1023 Howard St, 225 Blum St near the Menger, with monthly rents and contact phone numbers. A couple seeks three convenient rooms with light and bath close in.
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