Sends President gifts — all made in San Antonio (Manufacturers’ Club), 19 Dec 1915

This Sunday, 19 December 1915 San Antonio Express-News page 15 news story walks through the Manufacturers’ Club shipment to President Wilson on his wedding day: a Texas cottonwood box by the San Antonio Packing Box Company, American Express routing, and an enumerated donor list mixing heavy industry and grocery-packaging houses. For this museum the key lines are explicit coffee contributions—Morrison Coffee Company, one can Wesco coffee and Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Company, can H. & H. coffee—alongside Guenther flour, Lone Star beer, cement, macaroni, and dozens of other local firms.

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SENDS PRESIDENT GIFTS; ALL MADE IN SAN ANTONIO

MANUFACTURERS’ CLUB SHIPS BOX TO CHIEF EXECUTIVE ON HIS WEDDING DAY.

CONTAIN FIFTY VARIETIES

When President Wilson opens his wedding present from the Manufacturers’ Club of San Antonio he will find in the box fifty articles, all made in San Antonio.

[…] The assortment was in a special box of Texas cottonwood made by the San Antonio Packing Box Company, strongly bound and studded with metal and specially finished.

The box was shipped by the American Express Company Monday and is supposed to have arrived in time for the President’s wedding. It contained food products, hardware products, beer, soft drinks, samples of woodworking and printing and two sacks of San Antonio cement, among other things.

[…] “We have expressed to you a case containing samples of finished products of about fifty of San Antonio’s factories and which we will esteem it as a great favor if you will accept.”

[…] The following manufacturers donated toward the present:

Steves Sash and Door Company, carved walnut ornament; Alamo Iron Works, medallion; Morrison Coffee Company, one can Wesco coffee; Lathrop Furnace Company, […]; Citizens Ice and Fuel Company, one-ton book ice tickets; Lone Star Brewing Company, bottle of Alamo Beer; Star Clay Products Company, miniature fire brick; Passing Show Printing Company, illustrated booklet, “Widening of Commerce Street”; Guenther Milling Company, sack of Liberty Bell flour; Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Company, can H. & H. coffee; San Antonio Disinfectant and Exterminating Company, […]; San Antonio Sewer Pipe Works, […]; [list continues through macaroni factories, cement, printing, cider, and other donors].

Ellipsis marks indicate cuts where the column continues beyond this clip; donor list should be completed from the full page image.

Source

• San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, Texas), 19 December 1915, p. 15 (article columns as exported). PDF Sends_President_Gifts_All_Made_in_San_Antonio.pdf from work/inbox/; embedded raster via pdfimages. Companion photo headline on the same page: Fifty varieties display.
• Accessed 29 April 2026 (intake).