Blue Bonnets package with coffee — San Antonio Register, 17 July 1936

17 July 1936 San Antonio Register ad featuring Blue Bonnets packaging bundled with coffee—a promotional format worth comparing to plain tin-and-type retail ads elsewhere in the gallery.

Transcription

Headline

Blue Bonnets for Every Home

Photo caption

In the above picture Miss Pauline Crane is seen holding an enormous and beautifully designed floral piece of Texas Blue Bonnets.

Body

The Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Company, pioneer coffee roasters, is sponsoring a movement to perpetuate Blue Bonnet species. In a gesture the widely-known local firm is offering a full-sized packet of Staffel’s Blue Bonnet seeds FREE with each purchase of H & H, Sam Houston or Texas Girl coffees.

The offer has met an enthusiastic response from both merchants and consumers because it offers something beautiful. Blue Bonnets are easily grown from seed, but are not readily transplanted, states G. P. Menger, president of the concern. They may be planted in August, September, October and November or in early spring, in any type of soil.

The offer of free Blue Bonnet seeds made by the Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Company now makes it possible for every user of their three popular coffees to do their part in promoting the growth of [Texas state flower].

Source

• San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Tex.), 17 July 1936. Page not marked on the project scan; add locator when known.
• Project scan: Newspaper Clippings (1936 Jul 17 San Antonio Register H and H Blue Bonnets Package with coffee.jpg).