Sugar and coffee — retailer prices, San Antonio Express-News, 4 May 1915

Tuesday, 4 May 1915 San Antonio Express-News (page 12) repeats the paper’s “Sugar and Coffee” market form: green origins first, then a roasted ladder that again mixes Morrison-era identities (Broncho, Border, Wesco, Auto blend, Juanita) with El Merito, Metropolis, Sunset, Mrs. Rorer’s, and the start of a Maxwell House line—useful for year-on-year comparison with the 24 Aug 1912 column in this archive.

Transcription

COFFEE—Price to retailers: Green, choice Peaberry, 18¼c; choice Rio, 16@16½c; choice Santos, [column continues]; standard Cordova, 19@20c; washed Cordova, 20½@21c. Roasted: Broncho, 1-pound cans, 24c; Broncho, 4 pounds, with premium, 85c; Border brand, 4-pound pails, with premium, $1.10; Border brand, 3½-pound packages, 85c; 12 packages, 10 ounces net, $1.04; Wesco brand, 1-pound cans, 33c; Wesco brand, 2-pound cans, 65c; Wesco brand, 3-pound cans, 96c; Auto blend, 4-pound cans, with premium, 80c; Juanita blend, ground, 10 ounce cans, 8c; Juanita blend, ground, 1-pound cans, 20c; El Merito, 1-pound cans, 25c; Metropolis, 2-pound cans, 34c; Sunset brand, 32c; Mrs. Rorer’s brand, 28c; Maxwell House …

Transcription merged from OCR; confirm fractions and any truncated lines against the scan.

Source

• San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, Texas), 4 May 1915, p. 12. Exported from Newspapers.com as 1915_Coffee.pdf from work/inbox/; embedded raster extracted with pdfimages.
• Accessed 29 April 2026 (intake).