Newspaper Clippings
This is a working archive of newspaper scans, roughly 1911 to 2015, in which the Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Company and its brands show up in print. Most are San Antonio dailies — the Express, the Light, the Evening News, the Register, and the later Express-News — with a handful of clippings from other Texas and out-of-state papers where the company or its brands turned up.
The clippings fall into a few recognizable kinds:
- Morrison Coffee Company (San Antonio) house marks—Wesco, Juanita, Broncho, Misa, and related lines—show up in market columns and halftones through the mid-1910s. Morrison merged with Hoffmann to become Hoffmann-Hayman, the firm behind H and H; later clips are indexed here for that same lineage.
- Display advertisements for H and H Blend, H and H High Grade, Master Chef, Broncho, Sam Houston, and Texas Girl Coffees, and for the Crystalvac jar when it was sold as a feature of the product.
- Grocery-column mentions and co-op ads where H and H Coffee appears as one line among many — useful for pricing, size variants, and distribution over the decades.
- News items and feature articles on the company, the factory, its people, and later retrospective pieces (through the 2015 Mi Tierra / Master Chef feature in the Express-News).
A large share of the earliest 1910s–1920s San Antonio Express clippings on this page were contributed by Kevin Mackey, who pulled them from microfilm and newspaper databases and passed them along for the archive — the contribution is noted in each image’s title. See the credits page for other contributors.
For longer write-ups tied to specific ads, check the individual posts; for the company story around these clippings, see history.
