Irene Brown

Miss Irene Brown — Hoffmann-Hayman Demonstrator of H and H Products. Profiled in the 26 August 1923 San Antonio Light employee series (page 62) under the deck headline “Store Demonstration H. & H. Products.”

The article reads: “A part of the service that the Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Company renders grocers is to demonstrate H and H coffee and H and H tea in their stores, that the housewife might taste the taste of these delicious products.”

Key entities extracted:

• Products demonstrated: H and H coffee and H and H tea (both, not just coffee)
• The “Miss” title (as printed) confirms she was unmarried in 1923, distinguishing her from the married “Mrs.” Clara H. Allred
• Program framing: explicitly described as a service H&H rendered to grocers — the demonstrators were H&H employees placed in grocer locations

One of two demonstrators visible in the 1923 press series (the other was Clara H. Allred, titled “special demonstrator”). The role was front-line marketing labor at grocer-counter tastings.

Open questions

• Full vitals, San Antonio directory citations
• Tenure dates
• Title distinction from Clara H. Allred’s “special demonstrator” — sequence (Brown promoted later, or Allred had seniority)?

See also

• Clara H. Allred — “special demonstrator” on the same 1923 page
• Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Company