1931 Durant Oklahoma Billhead Hale-Halsell Company Smith Moore William Bonham Tx

Description

PLEASE READ BEFORE BUYING.
I sell ONLY ORIGINAL items and NOT ANY reproductions.
This sale is for
one
advertising
Bi
LL
HEAD
from
Hale - Halsell Company
Jobbers and Manufacturers
of Food Products
this billhead comes from the
DURANT, OKLAHOMA
during the year
of
1931
The billhead notes: Sold To
Smith-Moore Company in Bonham Texas.
Company History and notes about the Logo:
Hale-Halsell was the brainchild of two west Texas entrepreneurs,
Tom Hale
and
Hugh Halsell
. Hale was a successful hardware dealer who, in the late 1890s, identified the influx of settlers into Oklahoma as a lucrative market for food sales. Most of the goods procured in small towns came from food wholesalers in west Texas. Supplies deliveries were unreliable due to the of transport across the often swollen Red River. Local merchants had to tie up funds to sustain sufficient stocks of goods in case of delivery delays. Hale thought that a grocery wholesaler with a warehouse on the Oklahoma side of the river could capture this expanding the market. Attaining seed money from his old friend Hugh Halsell, he opened the Durant Grocery Company in Durant, Oklahoma, in 1901.
It became incorporated as the Hale-Halsell Grocery Company in
1903
, and extended operations to whole of the
Oklahoma Territory. In 1904,
Hale-Halsell purchased the Townsend Grocery Company in McAlester, Oklahoma, which soon became the
hub
for the company's operational expansion. (The company's headquarters remained in McAlester until 1969, when they moved to Tulsa.) With such a wide distribution network, Hale-Halsell's merchandise soon graced the shelves of a majority of the food retailers in the Oklahoma Territory. Oil was discovered near Tulsa in 1909, leading to a tremendous population boom. To capitalize on this new market, Hale-Halsell acquired Tulsa's Harvey Wholesale Company. Hale-Halsell added additional branch offices in Holdenville in 1918, Hugo in 1920, Ada in 1922, and Okmulgee in 1926.
As the company expanded geographically, Hale-Halsell also broadened its offerings. In 1915, it renovated its
McAlester headquarters to install Oklahoma's first coffee roasting plant
and soon added a peanut butter factory as well. During the 1920s and 1930s, the company diversified its manufacturing operations further when it began to
grind and pack spices and create flavor extracts
. Hale-Halsell's products were distributed under the labels
"Hale's Pride,"
"Hale's Leader," (logo on the billhead)
"Choctaw," and "Cowboy."
The
Approximate size of the billhead is
8 1/2" X 6 1/2".
The condition
of this billhead: It has one normal horizontal letter fold and is in decent condition.
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