1937 Here is Something that will interest you (3 rd edition)

A Brief Note on CIGARS

HERE'S HOW TO CHOOSE AND STORE CIGARS Somewhere it is told how our Salvation Yeo, that stalwart of the Virgin Queen, made a primitive cigar by "rolling a piece oftobacco leaf up neatly to the size of his httle finger." Much science, thought and experience has since that day been devoted to the production of this most wholesome weed, but the finest cigars still come—as they always have done— from Cuba, and the most famous tobacco growing district is the western portion of the Island, Vuelta Abajo. A great deal of the tobacco is exported for blending all over the world, but the cigars actually grown, blended and made in Havana, owing to the pecuhar climatic conditions, are acknowledged superior to those produced in any other part ofthe world. Havana Cigars are made entirely by hand and the makers are artists at their work. The average work man will make about loo medium-size cigars per day. The Cuban Government,in protection ofthe industry, by law insists on its green Guarantee label being placed round all boxes of genuine Havana-made Cigars; this is a great protection/ to smokers who otherwise might be deceived. Owing to labour and other difficulties, several of the well-known manufacturers, whose names have been household words for generations, have recently transferred their factories from Cuba to the U.S.A. Chief amongst these are the well-known La Corona, Henry Clay, Bock and M. VaUe. The stocks of the

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