Anybody remember the Jewel Tea Company? A traveling salesman would come to your house, and bring with him samples of things that were available to purchase. My mother was a sucker for stuff like that. She also sold Avon products at one time when I was young...50’s/60’s.
I don’t remember the Jewel Tea Company, but the Watkins salesman Bill Porter used to sell door-to-door in our neighborhood when I was a kid. He was the guy with cerebral palsy that they made a movie about. Very nice person, though my sisters were scared of him because he walked and talked funny.
Jewel is still around in the Chicago area. I think Albertsons took them over and kept the name. I still shop at “Da Jewels” as southsiders call it.
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We had a similar guy in Rural Mississippi, called ‘Standard Coffee’, sold various cleaning chemicals, coffee, kitchen gadgets and candy out of a Ford Econoline van......................