Sugar and coffee — retailer prices, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Aug 1912

This Saturday, 24 August 1912 San Antonio Express-News excerpt (page 14) is a compact market block: green coffee quotes to retailers, then roasted Morrison-era house names (Broncho, Border Brand, Wesco, Auto Blend, Juanita Blend, El Merito, Metropolis) with can and pail sizes and cents prices, closed by jobbers’ sugar lines. It documents price-card architecture for several labels the museum tracks before the 1917 formal Morrison handover notices elsewhere in the archive.

Transcription

SUGAR AND COFFEE.

COFFEE—Price to retailers: Green, choice Peaberry, 19½@20c; choice Rio, 17@18c; choice Santos, 18½@20c; standard Cordova, 20@21c; washed Cordova, 21@22c. Roasted: Broncho, 1-lb. cans, 24c; Broncho, 4 lbs. with premium, 85c; Border Brand, 4-lb. pails with premium, $1.10; Border Brand, 3½-lb. net, $1.00; Wesco Brand, 1-lb. cans, 31c; Wesco Brand, 2-lb. cans, 62c; Wesco Brand, 3-lb. cans, 93c; Auto Blend, 3-lb. cans with premium, 80c; Juanita Blend, ground, 10-oz. cans, 8c; Juanita Blend, ground, 1-lb. cans, [price follows column]; El Merito, 1-lb. cans, [price]; Metropolis, 2-lb. cans, 64c.

SUGAR—Jobbers’ prices: Fine granulated, American standard, $5.60@5.65.

Transcription tightened from OCR; fractional prices and the tail of the Juanita / El Merito lines should be checked against the scan.

Source

• San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, Texas), 24 August 1912, p. 14. Exported from Newspapers.com (Creator metadata) as 1912_Sugar_and_Coffee.pdf from work/inbox/; embedded raster extracted with Poppler pdfimages. Per-issue clip URL not present in the PDF metadata we read—
• Accessed 29 April 2026 (intake).