H and H Coffee

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

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Hey Fellers! Do You Want a Big Box Kite Free? — The News, 23 February 1935

A premium offer aimed at children: return empty Crystalvac jars or buy H and H Crystalvac coffee and get an H & H Flyer box kite.

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HEY, FELLERS! DO ian A BIG ts BOX KITE, FREE? Hey, Skinny! how’d you like to have a swell box kite? One that flies like a bird, tug like a horse on the end of your line and looks the swellest you ever saw in the air? Oh, you would, would you! Well, big boy, here’s how you can get one. For the return of three one- pound EMPTY H & H Crystalvac jars, or for one_ three-pound EMPTY H & H Crystalvac jar, either to the nearest grocery store to your home, or to the Hoffmann- Hayman Coffee Co., plant, 601 Delaware Street, the finest box kite you ever cast your eyes on, or that ever sailed over San An- tonio, will be given in return. And no strings tied to it, either. (You’ll have to furnish your own string.) But, if you haven’t any EMPTY Crystalvac H & H jars lying around ©] your house, there’s another way to| ° 4,/ get one of these swell kites. All N/ you have to do is to buy a pound yjof H & H Crystalvac coffee from i-lany grocery and pay the trivial

  • |sum of 10 cents extra and a kite is yours! he You’ll like this box kite. It does not require any bridle, nor any tail. It can be flown high, or low, according to the position in which the string is tied. H & H Flyer box kites are now on display in all grocery stores throughout San dj Antonio and this section of the | State. So you can get a kite in »{the country just the same as you j| can in town. Thousands of these kites were purchased by the H & H Coffee Co., but don’t let any grass grow under your feet, pardner, for there’s | g, a limit to everything, even the big] 1) supply of these kites. So get busy vi right now and get your kite while the getting is good. The kites were made in San Antonio. ta During the entire kite season, | a five specially built H & H Flyers, | da each six feet tall, will be flown in| E San Antonio from different loca- ‘| tions, mostly the various public F playgrounds, according to R. W. ut Menger, secretary and ‘advertising | », manager of the Hoffmann-Hayman st: “| Coffee Co. ‘| “We are glad to be able to offer| a, this opportunity to every boy and | gy, | girl in San Antonio and this sec- | «7 bo who desires one, to have a| pe fine box kite,” declared Mr. Men-| ty ger in announcing this unique fea-| to | ture. “We know these kites will] pr give the youngsters a lot of fine,| pe | wholesome pleasure—a real thrill. “Also, this is an opportunity for] m: us to redeem thousands of empty | us excess H & H Crystalvac jars, | ha i h have accumulated around | m; homes during the last 12 months, |—> or so. “These jars, when received at our plant, will be thoroughly | cleaned, then sterilized with live | steam, before re-use.” a)

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