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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1912
Page
10
Rates show per word charges for single and multiple insertions with a minimum monthly charge of 2.26 dollars. Ads under 16 words counted as 15. No extra Sunday charge. Telephone orders accepted at two numbers ending in 176. Publishers reserve right to reject or revise copy.
A compilation of classified ads seeks male youth for practical auto school programs at San Antonio Auto School now at 124 Ave D. Also posts positions for TV sales, fig orchard lots at $10 per 640 sq ft, stock salesmen at 505 Navarro St, a blacksmith in Poth, solicitors for a new company, night school in bookkeeping and stenography, a carpenter for cottages, Draughon’s Practical Business College, barbershop training at Moler Barber College, and various clerk and office jobs including auto and real estate sales and a bicycle courier.
Classified notices offer several domestic roles including cooks housekeepers and janitors. Listings specify White and German women for various homes such as Mrs G W Hagy 1001 Main Ave Garden Academy and Vances Ranch with contact phones and addresses. Candy factory Bee Candy Mfg Co seeks female workers at 711 Ave RB.
A flood of classified notices seeks female workers for housework cooking and office tasks. Offers include white German and colored applicants, experienced nurses, and a mission employment bureau open at Grand and River Aves. Many positions specify references car lines and pay.
Multiple notices show a steady young man seeking clerical or entry level trade work with 15 years of accounting and banking experience and references. A chauffeur seeks private family work with yard duties. A local collector offers honest service with horse and buggy. A couple seeks hotel or rooming house management. A shallow well driller is available. A 16 year old German boy seeks yard work. A young man seeks bookkeeper position with low salary. A farm manager with team handling experience seeks work. All provide contact addresses and light phone references.
Numerous listings for furnished rooms and light housekeeping near car lines in San Antonio. Options include front rooms with bath and piano at 108 Aubrey St, 103 Matagorda St, and 608 Ave C, along with other singles and suites at 408 Main Ave and 318 S Presa. Prices range from $3 weekly to $18 monthly with shared amenities and private family setups.
Unfurnished rooms with connecting bath wanted by a middle aged couple with a family of two. Close in location preferred. Old phone 7066.
A long list of for rent notices offers housekeeping rooms and small 1 2 and 3 room suites in private homes and near car lines across city areas. Listings include rents from $10 to $25 monthly and notes on modern conveniences baths gas and private entrances. Some entries specify no sick or children and proximity to business districts or depots.
Several rental notices describe furnished and unfurnished five room cottages with modern amenities. Listings include locations on South Park Terrace 1826 N Flores Mahone's Court 505 N San Saba and nearby Houston Street with phone numbers 5091 5685 and 7143 plus half-house rental near a car line. Prices range around 22.50 for furnished and 18 for unfurnished.
Multiple listings describe seven and six room lower flats and five room furnished units with modern amenities. Properties include 314 Carolina St, 423 Goliad, 106 West Romana, and 1826 N Flores, with features such as running water, gas and electric lights, baths, and near parks or car lines. Old phone numbers are listed for contact.
Several neat brick store buildings for rent at Santa Rosa and Buena Vista with reasonable rent. Richey and Casey, executive agents, contact 607-503 Navarro or 2236 9084. Ground floor corner building on Houston Street, cheap rent with improvements offered. Three centrally located store and business rooms for rent at 607-509 Navarro Street with prices $e and 125. Also storehouse with four rooms and large barn at 810 Peach Street South Heights near the car line. Additional rentals include a store and house suitable for grocery or market at 601 Jones Ave, a stable for eight horses with storage at 4384 Soledad Street, and a sub-lease offer on a former Hugo Schmeltzer & Co. store at 613-615 W Commerce Street ending April 1913.
Several rental requests and service ads: furnished cottages and houses with location and price. room and board for a couple. two furnished rooms for light housekeeping. a modern near-by house. contact details in the light office. Also seeking large clean white cotton bags and a large ice box for Welsh Produce Co.
Full breeding stock and eggs offered by local sellers. C A Willard lists barred Plymouth Rock stock and eggs at $1 per setting or per 14 eggs. E Kieffer advertises full blood barred Plymouth Rock eggs at $1 per 14 with contact by phone 2889. Light Want Ads serve you faithfully.
Live stock and misc ads list buyers and sellers for horses mules cows and new and used vehicles and harness. Listings include Texas Livery Co 310 B Santa Fe St Stark Street for milch cows with calves and service bulls. Also a thoroughbred horse 2 12 years old and a pair of fast young mules for trade for a heavy draft mule.
Lot of second hand vehicles of various kinds plus two horses offered by Wamulace Bros Co North Side Main Plaza Also Studebaker wagons Moline farm implements and carriages for sale Good buggy prices and other horse gear listed Contact numbers and addresses include Owt Na Sara Plan 321 29 S Flores Street Cocke 821 w Nueva 1832 old Zavala St Clifford Court and 315 Zavala St for more ads and details
Auto Top Co. advertises seat and top covers made and repaired and top recovering for ten dollars. Located at 605 North San Saba Street. F Pasche & Son Automobile and Painting lists a new phone 1612 at 1705 Avenue 5 Vee.
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