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Letter: Havana, Cuba to Charles Henry Douglass, Jr., Macon, Georgia, 1924 Oct. 18

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Nelson, R. M. R

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Letter from R. M. R. Nelson to Charles Henry Douglass, Jr., African American entrepreneur and owner of the Douglass Theatre, dated October 18, 1924, advertising a new beverage developed by a "black Cuban." Nelson offers Douglass the sole right to manufacture and sell the beverage in Georgia. He claims the beverage will outsell Coca Cola. Nelson names the ingredients in the beverage and promises that it can be manufactured anywhere for under five cents a gallon. He explains that the name of the beverage is Beso Dulce ("Sweet Kiss") and asserts that the name is catchy. Nelson suggests that sale of the beverage will make money for four people if one person cannot invest the amount of money needed. He quotes a price of two thousand dollars cash and one half of a cent for each bottle sold. Nelson suggests that Douglass form a company to manufacture and sell Beso Dulce in Georgia because African Americans spend more than one million dollars annually in Georgia's big cities for soft drinks. He offers to send a sample of Beso Dulce should Douglass express an interest. Nelson explains that he is "a colored citizen" of New York City who went to Cuba in 1898 and stayed because in Cuba he can be "more than half a man." He concludes with a reference.Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2005, as part of Georgia HomePLACE. This project is supported with...
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Keywords

  1. Cuba
  2. Douglass Theatre (Macon, Ga.)
  3. Douglass, Charles Henry, 1870 1940
  4. Georgia
  5. Havana
  6. Macon
  7. Marketing
  8. Soft Drink Industry
  9. Soft Drinks

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