Manufacturers of San Antonio — special advertising section — Light, 7 Nov 1915

Full Sunday advertising section from the San Antonio Light for 7 November 1915 (page 33): banner “Manufacturers of SAN ANTONIO” over dense local display ads, with prose pieces by C. C. Leel, secretary of the Manufacturers’ Club, and Allen D. Albert on buying San Antonio–made goods and employment. Among the grid is H & H Coffee — Hoffman-Hayman Coffee Co. (small display).

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Manufacturers of SAN ANTONIO

[Banner and mixed advertisements—partial excerpts from visible editorial blocks.]

Finding steady employment

Written by C. C. Leel, Secretary Manufacturers’ Club.

The advance or retrogression of industrial San Antonio is clearly in the hands of its purchasing public.

The growth of any city depends upon the number of men and women it is able to support, and the influx of additional people it can attract.

People with private incomes are in the vast minority, and without such income it is imperative that the average citizen find steady employment, or else be compelled to try his luck in some other city.

Wholesale houses, corporations, municipal governments and retail stores can only furnish work for about one half of the working population. It therefore remains for the industries of a city to find employment for the other half.

Factories cannot employ men and women unless manufacturers have jobs for them, and there are only sufficient jobs to furnish employment for a force of men or women necessary to make the goods which can be readily disposed of.

Factories only experience demand for their goods according to the orders they receive from the jobbers and retail stores.

Therefore it is clearly up to the purchasing public to ask for San Antonio–made brands, if it wishes to do its share towards furnishing means of employment for at least one-half of the workers of San Antonio.

Support the home factories

By Allen D. Albert (column heading as printed).

[Editorial continues on raw materials, labor, marketing, and encouragement of small manufacturing—full text garbled in export OCR; .]

SUPPORT THE HOME FACTORIES

Display line (Hoffmann–Hayman): H & H Coffee — Hoffman-Hayman Coffee Co. [Additional display copy on page; not fully legible in clip.]

Source

• Newspaper: San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Texas) — 7 November 1915 — page 33
• Digital clipping: Newspapers.com (pdfmake);
• Date accessed: 1 May 2026
• Local PDF: 1915-11-07-san-antonio-light-manufacturers-of-san-antonio-page-01.pdf