September 19, 1890: Reverse Psychology

If you want to drink a villianous mess of rotten coffee mixed with chicory and burned barley, do not come to us to buy your coffee for we keep no ground coffee, nothing but the pure fresh roasted unground article, which we grind course or fine as it is wanted. Oakland Tea and Coffee Co., 476 10th street. Oakland Daily Evening Tribune, Friday, September 19, 1890