H and H Coffee Is Now Vacuum Packed — San Antonio Express-News, 6 June 1932
The San Antonio Express-News for Monday, 6 June 1932 (page 7) runs a signed-style news feature on H and H vacuum-packed Crystalvac glass, with a jar photograph, G. P. Menger quotes, and figures on Three Rivers Glass and new plant employment. It sits a few days after the 3 June 1932 San Antonio Light Crystalvac display ad and shares the page with unrelated features (Merchants Transfer truck photo, Gimble potato chips, W. D. Sickle cleaning); only the Hoffmann-Hayman article is transcribed in full below.
Transcription
H and H Coffee Is Now Vacuum Packed
New Scientific Crystal Container Keeps Product Days Fresher
The Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee company, pioneer Texas roaster of fine coffees, has again proved its local dominance in giving the housewife its famed H and H coffee in an entirely new and revolutionary type vacuum-crystal jar known as crystalvac, for which the appropriate slogan has been adopted: “It’s Days Fresher, and It Stays Fresher.” In addition to the supreme freshness afforded by this feature, the jar is reusable and particularly handy for the preserving of fruits, etc., and will take all standard lids such as Kerr and Mason-Ball.
Cutout display of H and H Crystalvac Coffee.
The Hoffmann-Hayman company has brought the first coffee vacuum-packing machine for glass to Texas. In one operation it makes the container a vacuum and seals it. The jar holds one and a quarter quarts liquid measure. Stimulating home industry, this improved packing process has placed 15 additional employes at work at the Hoffman-Hayman plant and, of course, the initial shipment of 250,000 jars from the Three Rivers Glass company, at San Antonio’s back door, has also aided materially.
“Since Jan. 1, 1932, we have spent over $10,000 for Crystalvac equipment in preparing to give Crystalvac vacuum-packed coffee […] to Southwest Texas,” said G. P. Menger, president and manager of the company, during a recent interview.
“Of course, we will continue to pack H & H coffee in half, one and three-pound sealed tins as before,” concluded Menger, “but the confidence and faith of housewives in the H & H brands, evidenced by their tremendous increased consumption, is justification for our continuous efforts toward the end of scientifically improving the methods of packing these unexcelled products.”
Source
“H and H Coffee Is Now Vacuum Packed,” San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, Tex.), 6 June 1932, p. 7. Newspapers.com (page view), https://www.newspapers.com/image/1271020936/ (accessed 29 April 2026).
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