H and H Coffee

Dedicated to the history of the Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co. founded 1899 in San Antonio, Texas.

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Verse and “Sage T. Brush” tag — Hoffmann coffee mention; San Antonio Light, 1 Jun 1908, page 2

The San Antonio Light for Monday, 1 June 1908 (page 2) prints a short “Hoffmann Rhyme” filler: a comic verse on gold, mortality, and coffee, capped by a line crediting Wm. R. Hoffmann’s Java and signed in display script Sage T. Brush — a typical column-initial or reader’s corner tone for the period, tying the roast to San Antonio’s coffee trade years before later Hoffmann–Hayman factory coverage.

Transcription

Verse

You get coffers for your gold
And coffins when you’re cold,
And a cough will take you off
the doctors say,
But I think that I will have a
Steaming cup of Java.
And a century more on earth I’m
going to stay.

Prose and byline

I’ll wager that the author of that rhyme is a customer of Wm. R. Hoffmann and he wants to live another hundred years just to enjoy that delicious Java that has made Hoffman a noted character in San Antonio.

Attribution

Sage T. Brush

Punctuation and line breaks follow the clipping; Hoffman appears as in the type (second reference), beside Hoffmann in the dealer name.

Source

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