Tobacco smoked at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis?

[Bobby Bailey]

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I've got an original one of those that a little girl practiced writing her name on in 1931. I got it from her son-in-law several years ago.

 

[didimauw]

Our Advertiser and Country Gentleman fifty years ago came in two sizes of cloth sacks.

The small ones were 15 cents and 1 1/2 ounces. There were larger sacks, maybe eight ounces, for 65 cents. I wish now I’d have bought a big sack.

I preferred Country Gentleman.

Bull Durham came in 3/4 ounce little sacks for 15 cents, and it seemed to be only for cigarettes.

Old Hillside was strong burley, made by Stoker’s. It came in 1 1/2 ounce sacks, and outlasted them all. I bought a sack maybe twenty years ago when it was discontinued. I still have some occasionally.

I just bought an unopened small sack of Our Advertiser for $10 delivered.

Let’s see how good it keeps?

Let's your sa....

Um...pictures of the tobacco bought that you quoted here!

 

[Briar Lee]

Let's your sa....

Um...pictures of the tobacco bought that you quoted here!

See how the drawstring is still untied?

It’s new.

When they were new in the stores they had three little packages of papers tucked inside, plus what years ago was a paper tax stamp over the strings.

Plus they were pressed into a sort of rectangle to fit in a box.

That sack was separated from the other sacks, sold at retail, and the papers have been robbed and the tax stamp came unglued and was lost.

But it should be full of NC bright leaf.