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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Oct 18, 1916

Page

6

Chalmers Dealers Attend Banquet and Detroit Factory Tour

Southwest Texas Chalmers dealers gathered at the Gunter Hotel for a banquet and a film tour of the Detroit factories. Hugh Chalmers and executives were introduced to attendees as the moving picture on car building and selling impressed the crowd. Frank B. Willis presided as toastmaster while a quality first message and cabaret acts capped the event.

Chalmers Texas Gunter Hotel Detroit Hugh Chalmers Chalmers Motor Car Company Lov Guarantee Motor Car Company of San Antonio Chalmers Automobile W. F. Williamson Marshall Crowell Guarantee Motor Car Company Hagan Willis George Witte Udo Haarmann

Army mule vindicated again on border transport drills

El Paso, Oct 18. In large national guard practice marches with about eighteen thousand men, trucks struggle on rough southwest roads and some units go supperless or short of fodder. Yet pack mules persist as a reliable, sure form of border transportation despite limited capacity.

EL Paso Tex National Guard Europe

Manufacturers' Club weighs power from Marble Falls dam for San Antonio

Members discuss funding the Marble Falls hydro project and prepare letters to power users asking for estimated consumption in the first three years. Proposed rates range from 1 1 8 to 2 cents per kilowatt hour by horsepower tier. A 5000 horsepower need would be evaluated before council contract with dam owner C H Alexander.

Marble Falls San Antonio Manufacturers’ Club C. H. Alexander

Rattler Bites Corpus Child

Corpus Christi Texas October 18 Katy Belle the young daughter of Mr and Mrs Ed Priour who live west of Corpus Christi is slowly recovering from a rattlesnake bite to her foot sustained while playing in the yard.

Rattler Corpus Corpus Christi Tex Katy Belle Ed Priour

Duke Seeks Divorce From Archduchess Marie Dorothea

The Duke of Orléans plans to seek a papal annulment of his marriage to Archduchess Marie Dorothea of Austria, claiming it did not meet ecclesiastical law requirements on the Austrian side. The Duchess previously won a separation suit in January 1914 amid childless-claims.

Paris Duke of Orleans Rome Marie Dorothea of Austria

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