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NINE—PAGE EIGHT'y-y .'fl i ;, ' .‘t^V'S'rlit•H*.. -d-v.lk:.i; •..!5p7»!y Laid in When Revolution Threatens to Close Brazilian Port^A-v-VSfc■i- jfi;:;Sg.|:kTh« Fall Trade Season, fostered byExtension Board of the San £^'2®itvi»io Chamber of Commerce, will be •?|^h®ie;.iae»ns of gaining, this city the rec-due her as the commercial cen-the South, according to G. 1‘. .'Meager, president and manager of the i;:0i^jffrtian-Hayman Coffee Company. HeffiWviSsites that there are many direct and direct results gamed every year rough this project.y holding these trade weeks every iar, San Antonio manifests a desire r ; trade and commerce that ontside :3£vijierdiants resiiond to with large or*It is also a big benefit to suies-• •; w]j0 clt;.ver the districts included inFall Trade Season, and they hi* I^T^riably report a large increase in in-and orders tor tsau Antonio $*J:. :■ jfiods, following the trade week.V-f|Mr. Meager considers that San An-;• i»hio has the products of commerce, %:;{ . bgth raw and finished and that all that v• • necessary is to place her goods, be-;J:' xfee. the people of Texas in tiie proper reanner, in order to receive larger i business.: - llARGEK BUSINESS COMING.V gThifl trade season will snow the . spialltowm merchant that San Antonio ^1: interested, in his town, and he re-V;:. ,ta|iates by piacing larger orders with tfie salesmen.Mengei has been in the employ ; m the H H Coffee Company since V/ 31S, a year after the company was • drganized, and he has been president \ and manager lor the last three years.' The firm was first established by Wil-•i;'V lJain B, Hoffmann, and the business re-: tfiined his name until his death, in11110, when it was consolidated with, the Merchants Coffet Company,' a lo-V c-tel concern owned by IV. E. Hayman. id became Hoffmann-Hayman Cot-. fee Company. In 1920, Mr. Hayman's j interests were taken over by G- V- \ Menger and it. \V. Meager. Tlie Juter as::now secretary-treasurer of the firm.. GETS LARGE SHIPMENT. ;.•ViDue to the present revolution in Brazil, which is the greatest coffee producing country in the world, the fear of a coming coffee shortage is forcing the company to procure a large stock of the bean. The trend of fighting in Brazil seems lt;o indicate that the port of Santos will soon be closed. 3t: tats happens, a coffee famine will ensue,, according to Mr. Menger. Coffee has already advanced five cents a pound in the hist thirty days. A double car load of coffee, worth $1(5,UOO was- received at the company warehouse last Saturday morning.f THE “CUP TEST-Some of the products o£ the H H'' Cbtfee Company arc: H H coffee, Texaco coffee. Broncho coffee, Monger I'eabefry coffee, Border coffee and H VB tea, and HAH cocoa. In the shop' ie au automatic coffee labeler wjtu a capacity of 10,000 cans of coffee a May.'Mr. Menger has inaugurated a special- cup-testing laboratory in .which samples of green coffee are roasted and tested tor cup quality by experts. All coffee is cup-tested before it is bought to-,insure their trade against any lowering of the high standard maintained b}r the li H company.;The company maintains a force ot ten salesmen, and has an average out-.put .of two oarloads a week. A suboffice has recently been established at Balias with William A. Brown as theinorth Texas representative. ......* «C»'CT-hitr1rTRADE SEASONS WILL BRING NEW INDUSTRY HERE3?he tralt;]e excursions to San An-f.onin ami thlt;* tr:wlrtbtothTICillfCIK.ON*VIHdrcopl\Ycn!lt;■IIIIKS1Jbi:lilothCi:of
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San Antonio Light
San Antonio, Texas, US
Sun, Aug 03, 1924
Page 38
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