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25 Cents - Food Stamp Scrip Homestead Meat Co. Inc.
| Issuer | Homestead Meat Co. Inc. |
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| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Tan paper scrip with a dashed chain-link border enclosing all text. Denomination '25¢' appears at upper left and right in bold, flanking the central letterpress legend 'TWENTY-FIVE CENTS / FOOD STAMP CREDIT'. A central inner rectangle carries the issuer's rubber-stamped red overprint identifying the store address in Houston, Texas, with 'Redeemable at This Store Only' repeated in black at both lateral margins. |
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| Obverse lettering | 25¢ TWENTY-FIVE CENTS 25¢ FOOD STAMP CREDIT Redeemable Only By Participant of U.S. Govt. Food Stamp Program Program For Food Items On Authorized List. Redeemable Redeemable At At This Store This Store Only Only HOMESTEAD MEAT CO., INC. 8808 HOMESTEAD RD. HOUSTON, TEXAS 77016 TX - 12 - 401 |
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Homestead Meat Co. Inc. issued this 25-cent food stamp scrip as part of the federal food stamp program's early infrastructure, when private retailers and cooperating businesses occasionally produced their own denominated coupon-style instruments to facilitate transactions within the program's rules. The Houston meat trade was a serious commercial environment, and scrip at this denomination was almost certainly intended for change-making — a persistent logistical problem in food stamp redemption that the program never fully solved.
Private-label food scrip of this kind is thinly documented. Most was destroyed in the normal course of business redemption, which accounts for its scarcity.