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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1927
Page
9
New York dispatch reports a plan by General Motors to distribute a 78 million melon as stock to holders, with a 100 percent stock dividend proposed for Sept 12 stockholders meeting. Directors seek to issue two new 20 par shares for each old no par share, doubling common stock while preserving overall capital.
A Dallas Rotary celebration hosts a San Antonio group departing the St. Anthony hotel at 3 PM Friday for Lake Medina. The event, arranged by Porter Loring and chaired by Walter Walthall, proceeds with courtesy Rotarian Martin Wright coordinating transport through the toll gate.
Park Commissioner Ray Lambert announced plans for a large dancing pavilion in San Pedro Park with a specially prepared concrete floor. The structure will shelter hundreds in rain and aims to be ready for community use at no charge. He also noted Brackenridge park's Joske memorial nearing completion.
CHICAGO August 12 F Transcontinental express service by air will start September 4, says K B M Cowie president of American Renway Express. The service, between New York and Chicago and across the Atlantic to the Pacific, will cut delivery time from four days to two coast to coast and from New York to Chicago from two days to one. Planes will cruise about 100 miles per hour and carry around 1800 pounds.
Delegates to the twentieth annual meeting of the National Association of Real Estate Boards prepared to nominate a new slate of officers led by Harry N. Culver of Los Angeles and Harry G. Leander of Chicago. Houston likely as midwinter meeting place with next year’s summer venue to be chosen in Chicago. Louisville and Atlantic City bid for a future meeting. Proposals urge periodic surveys by member boards to plan building needs and seek federal river control and flood relief, plus support for the Columbia River reclamation project in Washington.
The Princes of Wales and Premier Stanley Baldwin, who arrived in Canada together, planned to meet again in Calgary this evening after a public reception in Edmonton. Baldwin was to address a large crowd before departing, while Wales and Prince George kept a quieter day at Pekisko ranch as others toured the foothills.
Lester Wile, composer and singer, entered Station Hospital Houston for an operation due to complications from a bayonet wound received at Camp Mills in 1918. Born in San Antonio, he joined the army from Houston, served overseas with the Ninth Division, and wrote wartime marches including In the Land of Breathing Again and They Were All Out of Stop Find Jim. He currently resides in Austin.
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