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.

SENDS PRESIDENT GIFTS; ALL MADE IN SAN ANTONIO
MANUFACTURERS’ CLUB SHIPS BOX TO CHIEF EXECUTIVE ON HIS WEDDING DAY.
CONTAINS 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. Secretary C. C. Leel said that no doubt the President will find some things for which he has no need, but he will be shown that San Antonio is not backward when it comes to factories

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.

Two boxes of engraved visiting cards, one for the President and two others for his bride, were sent by the Maverick-Clarke Litho Company. A letter wishing health, prosperity and happiness was sent with the box. The letter follows:
“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.
“We wish to point out to you that we have in San Antonio some noted manufacturing institutions, including the largest chili products factory and also the largest commercial pecan shelly in the world.
“We are proud of our industries and hope and expect that with the continued support of our citizens we will become the South’s most important factory city within the next few years.
“Wishing you continued health, prosperity and happiness.”
The following manufacturers donated toward the present:
Steves Sash and Door Company, carved walnut ornament; Alamo Iron Works, medalion; Morrison Coffee Company, one can Wesco coffee; Lathrop Furnace Company, copy of original land grant map, made in 1833, State of Texas by government of Mexico when Texas was part of the State of Coahuila; 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, bottle of Southern Souble Pine Oil Disinfectant; San Antonio Sewer Pipe Works, miniature clay sewer pipe, clay medallion and clay dog; A. Groina Mattress and Pillow Factory, sample of Texas cotton used in manufacture of fine mattresses, etc.; San Antonio Portland Cement Company, sack of Alamo brand Portland cement; Alamo Printing Company, sample of fine color printing; R. M. Hughes & Co., bottle of Monogram apple cider; San Antonio Macaroni Factory, assortment of macaroni, eler nudiun, etc.; Pioneer Flour Mills, sack of Pioneer flour; Jenner Manufacturing Company, box Mexican pecan candy; West Texas Products Company, box of cantol wax belt dressing; San Antonio Brewing Association, bottle of Texas Pride beer; Mitrovich Manufacturing Company, bottle of Salsa Diablo; Maverick-Clarke Litho Company, engraved visiting cards for President Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Wilson; Duerler Manufacturing Com-pany, box of shelled pecans; Coca Cola Bottling Company, bottle of coca cola; Dixie Oil and Refining Company, can of Dixie Ever Ready Lubricant; Service Engraving Company, specimens of fine engraving; Southern Ice Company, one-ton ice coupon book; Powder Patch Manufacturing Company, sample of tire filler; Southern Macaroni Company, samples of macaroni, vermicelli, etc.; Gebhardt Chili Powder Company, Eagle brand devil chilli meat; Lang Soap Company, Lang’s No. 1 soap; Mills Engraving Company, stickers of the missions, etc.; Delaware Punch Company of Texas, Delaware Punch; San Antonio Packing Box Company, packing box; Jungkind Manufacturing Company, bottle of Chlorine; Flick Cigar Factory, box Travis Club cigars; San Antonio Machine and Supply Company, picture of plant embodying 1916 calendar; Schober Ice and Brewing Company, bottle of Export beer; Wagner Sand Company, samples of sand in paperweight; Crown Chemical Company, can H. & H. Antiseptic; Ed L. Biesenback & Co., sample of Bear brand candles; Ed Friedrich, rolling pin; Archer’s Art Shop, hand colored photo of Alamo.

Source

“Sends President Gifts; All Made in San Antonio,” San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, Tex.), 19 December 1915, p. 15. Newspapers.com (page view), https://www.newspapers.com/image/1271481502/ (accessed 30 April 2026).

Inbox export (Sends_President_Gifts_All_Made_in_San_Antonio.pdf, work/inbox/); embedded newspaper JPEG extracted with Poppler pdfimages. Companion photo / headline on the same page: Fifty varieties display.