P. J. Smith
P. J. Smith
Hoffmann-Hayman City Salesman profiled in the 26 August 1923 San Antonio Light employee series (page 65). Parallel role to Joachum Morales.
The article reads: “The grocers of San Antonio welcome Mr. Smith’s cordial greetings. His smile wins for him the admiration of his customers. Ever careful of that admiration and trust Mr. Smith, not only sells his customers H and H products, but gives them suggestions for the improvement of their sales and service.”
Key entities extracted:
- Products sold: H and H products broadly (not product-line-specific like Morales’s coffee/tea/spices framing)
- Distinguishing characteristic: provided merchandising and sales-improvement advice to grocers, beyond the product sale itself — a consulting-adjacent relationship with the trade
Open questions
- Full vitals, San Antonio directory citations
- Tenure dates
- City-beat geographic split between Smith and Morales — were routes divided by neighborhood, customer-language, or simply alphabetically?
See also
- Joachum Morales — parallel city salesman on the same 1923 page
- Paul A. Rochs — territory salesman in the broader sales hierarchy
- Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Company