San Antonio Express-News, 18 January 1968, p. 4 — H. L. Green Grocery & Meat Dept. ad: Master Chef Tea Bags 48-count, 35¢
- Catalog ID
HH-CLIP-1968-0001- Gallery
- Newspaper
Master Chef Tea Bags 48-count, 35¢ — H. L. Green grocery ad — SA Express-News, 18 January 1968
H. L. Green Grocery & Meat Dept. (301 Alamo Plaza, San Antonio) display ad in the San Antonio Express-News of Thursday, 18 January 1968 (p. 4) listing weekly specials for Jan. 18, 19, 20, 22 — Quantity Rights Reserved. The featured project line:
- TEA BAGS — MASTER CHEF — 48-COUNT PKG. — 35¢
Useful primary-source pricing/sku attestation:
- Master Chef Tea Bags as a SKU in January 1968 — a 48-count box at 35¢. Corroborates the 22 December 1966 SA Light “Master Chef Color Provides Key” story (
HH-CLIP-1966-0002) which announced Master Chef Tea as a sister product in “new decorator packages.” Two-year arc: late-1966 launch through early-1968 grocery distribution. - H. L. Green was a national five-and-dime chain (the Hartford-Empire–era H. L. Green Co.) — having an in-store grocery dept at 301 Alamo Plaza adjacent to the Alamo. Useful San Antonio retail-history datapoint.
Other items in the same ad (for retail/grocery context):
- Mellorine — Geyer’s Square Carton — ½ gallon — 29¢ (Mellorine was a margarine-frozen-dessert substitute popular in Texas in the era; Geyer’s was a San Antonio dairy.)
- Pream Coffee Lightener — 14-oz. Jar — 65¢
The “Quantity Rights Reserved” and four-day weekly specials format places this ad in the early grocery-loss-leader / weekly-circular era.