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San Antonio Express-News, 26 January 1947, page 13 — "Coffee Firm Damaged" notice: a fire of unknown origin in the roof of the H&H Coffee Company at 601 Delaware St., reported at 2:30 p.m. Saturday with $3,000 in damage, much of it from water seeping to the lower floors and damaging roasted coffee.

A Sunday-morning San Antonio Express-News notice covering the Saturday afternoon 25 January 1947 fire in the roof of the H&H Coffee Company plant at 601 Delaware St. Same incident the San Antonio Light reported the same day under “Firemen Get 15 Alarms in Day” (HH-CLIP-1947-0001). Both papers agree: fire of unknown origin, 2:30 p.m. start, $3,000 estimated loss, most of it from water seeping from the roof to the lower floors and damaging stored roasted coffee. The Express-News version is the tighter, single-paragraph filing under a sharper headline (“Coffee Firm Damaged”) that names H&H directly in the title — useful for citation-by-search hits on the plant address. This is the second documented fire at 601 Delaware in the postwar decade (the August 1947 fire follows seven months later, with another $2,000 loss).

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Coffee Firm Damaged

A fire of unknown origin in the roof of the H&H Coffee Company, 601 Delaware St., at 2:30 p.m. Saturday caused damage estimated at $3,000, firemen reported. Water seeping from the roof to lower floors and damaging roasted coffee accounted for much of the loss, firemen said.

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