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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1926)
1926. teat unite in service : 1 and you find at fage ren ja irKAiNim i jyjmivjjt uoBfiitytK 1L """""""" firms I WO r" ' ' ' imr ' 1 ' ' " " "" ' I your grocer s famous blend from the old South Allen &: Lewis become exclusive local wholesale distributors of' Maxwell House Coffee receiving it fresh from our new Pacific Coast Plan t Over their coffee and cigars at the Maxwell House in Nashville of the .old South, Statesmen gathered to discuss the ncV "Northwest territory," a vast - wilderness with the'village of Portland on its coastal fringe. The coffee they drank was furnished hy Joel Cheek, w a ypung Tennessee mountaineer, who developed such a distinctive hlend that the Maxwell . House, always serving it, became fa mous for its coffee. , In Portland a small. jobbing firm Allen & Lewis, estabjished in the '50s was busy serving the pioneer mer chants, many of whose early ventures afterwards. developed into businesses of large magnitude. As the North west grew, so grew Allen & Lewis. The village of Portland became a great city, surrounded by fertile valleys and mailer cities, peopled by prosperous Westerners. this iwten ;-L . I WW WM Ctntir of tin social lift.of th l hi South, stuffing plaei of distill luitbtd trjrtlcrs, tin old Mjxitill lloitsi in ji.'jiillt,Tinntssit, uis uidi famt for in food urn) is pidMly for its ccjfit, sptcial Hind full fljrortd and milieu' that (utit mould linyr our ni mtir forpt. 'And the fame of Maxwell House Cof fee has sprerfd throughout the Nation. From a single roasting plant in Nashville has developed a mighty or ganization with great plants from Coast to Coast. Now these two firms join hands to .serve the Grocery trade, and through grocers the people of the Northwest, and offer you Maxwell House Coffee, fresh roasted from a Pacific Coast plant. The Allen & Lewis who "started with Portland" three-quarters of, a century ago: who call their own goods "Preferred 'Stock" and who go to the ends of the earth to bring iretail , grocers the finest foods for your tables . - The Cheek -Neal Coffee Company, living up to the ideals of its founder, keeping the same fine blend that has made Maxwell House the largest sell- in' high-grade coffee in the world. These firms arrange to supply your grocer, where you mav go todav and find the bluestins of Maxwell House Coffee fresh roasted, fine the kind that's chosen by great hotels, by par ticular people everywhere, Chcek-Neal Coffee Company, Nash ville, Houston, Jacksonville, "Rich mond, New York, Los Angeles. Maxwell House Coffee Rpafted fresh for the West in oar Pacific Coah 1 plant Americas largefl selling high grade coffee ALLEN & LEWIS, exclusive wholesale distributors for Portland, Li Grande, Astoria, Marshfield, Eugene, Oregon and Walla Walla, Wash ington
