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A 1921 summer-season tea advertisement in the San Antonio Evening News urges grocers by telephone, pairs “H AND H TEA” with a Ceylon-India blend carton illustration, and signs off with “GUARANTEED TO PLEASE” and Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co., San Antonio, Texas—useful documentation for the tea side of the line alongside coffee clippings in Newspaper Clippings.

San Antonio Evening News, Tuesday 14 June 1921 — Hoffmann-Hayman H and H Tea advertisement with telephone and tea-box artwork

Transcription

Have You Ordered Your Tea……. Yet?
HOT WEATHER IS HERE
Now is the time to phone your grocer for that delicious….

H AND H TEA

(Tea box illustration: “H AND H BLEND CEYLON-INDIA TEA”; smaller packer line at the base of the carton is not fully legible on this scan.)

GUARANTEED TO PLEASE

Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS

Source

  • San Antonio Evening News, San Antonio, Texas — Tuesday, 14 June 1921 (page not marked on this clip).
  • Project scan: Newspaper Clippings (image San_Antonio_Evening_News_Tue__Jun_14__1921_.jpg).