Vice President Thomas Riley Marshall, quipped his way to immortality in 1913 when a long winded Kansas Senator was bloviating on and on about all the many things America needed, and Riley ruminated:
What this country needs is a really good five cent cigar
A century has passed and a nickel in 1913 was worth about a dollar fifty today. But while Riley received almost countless thousands of manufacturer’s samples of nickel cigars (which would be buck fifty cigars today) a few months later he was quoted as saying:
“The country’s greatest need still exists”
Even in 1913, really good cigars were fifteen cents, or maybe two for a quarter.
In addition to never missing one payment on my pipe habit, I occasionally like a really good cigar, above the Dutch Masters grade, especially at my farm.
I’ve been buying long filler, hand rolled cellophane wrapped bundles of cigars now for a nearly half a century. Back then really good ones were a dollar a stick. But then a Dutch Masters was still a nickel and Half and Half a quarter a pouch. A dollar cigar in 1977 should be five dollars today, according to the inflation calculator.
On my way to the farm, I stopped by a Smoker Friendly outlet in Versailles Missouri, and bought this bundle of really good four dollar cigars.
Smoker Friendly Nicaraguan Gold White Label Churchill 50 x 6 1/2
It has a real paper and foil band.
The cigar has that good, oily, glistening sheen only righteous hand rolled cigars have, and it’s well made and burns evenly.
These are bold, spicy, and delicious Nicaraguan cigars, the kind you can pass around to company that visit.
They are long filler, zig zag constructed, really good cigars.
What this country needs is a really good five cent cigar
A century has passed and a nickel in 1913 was worth about a dollar fifty today. But while Riley received almost countless thousands of manufacturer’s samples of nickel cigars (which would be buck fifty cigars today) a few months later he was quoted as saying:
“The country’s greatest need still exists”
Even in 1913, really good cigars were fifteen cents, or maybe two for a quarter.
In addition to never missing one payment on my pipe habit, I occasionally like a really good cigar, above the Dutch Masters grade, especially at my farm.
I’ve been buying long filler, hand rolled cellophane wrapped bundles of cigars now for a nearly half a century. Back then really good ones were a dollar a stick. But then a Dutch Masters was still a nickel and Half and Half a quarter a pouch. A dollar cigar in 1977 should be five dollars today, according to the inflation calculator.
On my way to the farm, I stopped by a Smoker Friendly outlet in Versailles Missouri, and bought this bundle of really good four dollar cigars.
Smoker Friendly Nicaraguan Gold White Label Churchill 50 x 6 1/2
It has a real paper and foil band.
The cigar has that good, oily, glistening sheen only righteous hand rolled cigars have, and it’s well made and burns evenly.
These are bold, spicy, and delicious Nicaraguan cigars, the kind you can pass around to company that visit.
They are long filler, zig zag constructed, really good cigars.
