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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1912
Page
10
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Classified column shows numerous help wanted notes across trades and services. Listings include male night school helpers, salesmen, auto and fig orchard opportunities, stock sales, furniture solicitors, coachmen, barbers, drivers, yard workers, real estate agents, and housework positions all offering wages, training, or commissions in San Antonio and surrounding streets with addresses and contact details.
A jumble of classified notices lists multiple job openings and positions in the West End and Taft Texas. Entries include wheel boys messaged by SCHWABB McELROY DRUG STORES in Alamo Plaza and tasks from window shade making to delivery work.
Help wanted notices seek female cooks housekeepers and sewers at various addresses including 280 East Commerce 404 Market Street and 13 Porter Street male and boy applicants for wheel duties and a teacher for a small boy also a presser and a second cook needed at the verside restaurant New York Star Dye Works and local firms list multiple positions across town with contact details.
The Washer Bros company calls for several young women with prepossessing appearance to model high class gowns at an upcoming fashion show. About five hours work with good pay, preferred experience as models, apply 9 to 10 a.m. on any day up to Sept 20, third floor.
A collection of brief help wanted notices including drivers, bookkeepers, stenographers, translators, and a physician seeking assistant roles. Recruits emphasize reliability, references, minor experience, and local ties. Addresses note Light area.
A collection of help wanted notices lists a female stenographer and typist seeking a position with old contact details, a teacher with six years experience seeking governess work on a ranch, a German lady offering ironing services from home or daily, a young woman seeking a pianist job, an all round office worker seeking any suitable role, a bookkeeper with 11 years experience seeking a position, a competent stenographer and bookkeeper offering substitution, and a middle aged lady seeking housekeeper work with a gentleman preference.
Agents of neat appearange sought to sell high class household needs to best homes. Big money to right parties. Call or write Domestic Vacuum Cleaner Co. 233 Be Housten &t.
A chaotic list of lost items and rewards across Texas cities includes a large diamond ring in a 500 block area, a gold locket and chain, multiple keys with Cory Harrison tags in San Antonio, an oriental auto cap, nose glasses, a brown mare and a dark brown horse with rewards, a gold piece pin, a watch on Alamo Plaza, and a bulldog license. Rewards range from small cash offers to liberal sums, with returns directed to addresses in Liberal Houston San Antonio San Antonio and other localities.
A bustling classified list offers many furnished rooms in private homes and hotels around San Antonio. Options include first class family hotel rooms at the Thompson and other houses, with baths, bell boy service, and modern conveniences. Several listings note hot and cold running water, breakfast, board, and proximity to car lines and depots.
Multiple rental listings appear for houses and stores in San Antonio areas. Properties include 3 bedroom and 4 room homes, cottages, and a ground floor market space on Alamo plaza. Various addresses are listed with monthly rents and contact notes for Dalkowicz Bros Co Haubold and Mr Young.
Rental page listing numerous modern one two and five room flats and houses for rent in San Antonio. Ads include locations on Carolina St Madison Square Commerce Street Presa Navarro and more with rents from 14 to 75 dollars monthly. Agencies mentioned include San Antonio Loan & Trust Co Richey Casey Dickinson Kile Co Harvey L Page Co. and listings reference utilities and proximity to town and car lines.
Numerous rental notices offer five to seven room houses close in, modern cottages and flats for $8 to $46 monthly, and room by middle aged lady. Also ads for disinfected houses for rent. Several wanted-to-rent requests include by October 12 and October 12 deadlines. Other entries promote buy/sell items like safes, phonographs, wagons, and a scholarship for a San Antonio business college.
Classified note from South Cherry Street gravel pit owner seeks five hundred loads moved and offers to sell or borrow against a turquoise matrix set in solid gold weighing 109 carats. Contact at 236 Light. old phone 6668.
Classified notes list used incubator for sale, eggs wanted, and good prices on chicken feed and grains. Also offers buy orders for Black Minorca and White Leghorn chicks and pigeons with contact phone numbers and addresses.
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