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... major domestic cigarette factories and their former owners as shareholders. When the American Tobacco Company (ATC) entered the US cigar trade in 1902 in earnest, the PRATCO initiated an enormous expansion. While the trust never became a leaf grower save in Cuba and Puerto Rico, the Porto Rican Leaf...

... broadleaf and, by the mid-nineteenth century, was used for cigar-wrapper leaf. New England Yankees dominated the industry in its early years. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries they were increasingly supplanted by eastern and central European immigrants who used profits from tobacco...

... the hell cares? A passionate fan of Mississippi State sports, in his later years he liked to sit on his front porch, listen to the Dawgs on a radio, puff on a fine cigar, and sip good bourbon. Sometimes he dreamed aloud about Greene County, Scottish bagpipes, and The Battle Hymn of the Republic. E...

... early proponents, including Milton Whitney, who reportedly could identify the soils in which tobacco was cultivated from exposure only to the cigar smoke, and the Gottingen-trained chemist and vocal African-American education proponent Charles Dabney. While the great pedologist, soil scientist...

... thetobaccomanufacturingindustryunder theleadershipof James Buchanan "Buck"Duke. Other tobacco typesutilize similarcategories of informationf;orexample,theConnecticutShade-GrownCuban-Seed Cigar Leaf. Such varietal types became legal restrictions when New Deal price-supportandproduction-contrmoleasures placed limitns otonlyon how much...

... assembly workers were paid by the piece rather than by the hour so their earnings depended on their productivity, women earned on average about half of what men did. Women from the Nanticoke Valley also worked in the garment and cigar factories of Binghamton and Johnson City. These industries employed...

... from local farmers. They also constructed new tobacco factories side-by-side with the newly constructed, locally owned factories. The construction of the Caguas-Cayey Cigar Company during the first decade of the twentieth century helped tobacco dominate the agricultural sector of Caguas. By 1910...

... neglected their facilities.16 Once again entrepreneurial wine people found creative ways to rebuild their large commercial wineries. The Petri family utilized their Petri Cigar Company profits to reenter the industry by purchasing St. Helena and Calistoga co-ops (business structures whereby grape farmers...

... with writing things down.58 George Easton struggled with his conscience and reminded himself of God s direction and judgment at the end of each day. Gardener and cigar-maker Arthur Schulze monitored his drinking habit.59 Gentleman farmer George Leith took comfort in his diary when his wife was away by writing...

..., and smoking a fine cigar with his bulldog beside him. The merchant particularly enjoyed watching the spectacle on Saturday mornings as a horny-handed farmer drove into town with his wagon and a mule that had lost an eye. As the farmer came by the merchant's home, the bulldog would tear down the lawn...

... and enjoy such luxuries as fine cigars and electricity. For many farmers, however, the vision of climbing the ladder remained a mere dream. Some would not have failed to notice the skin color of the man climbing Taylor s ladder. Still others followed Taylor s advice and pursued efficiency, only to fall...

.... There was no reason, the editors of the Comet urged, that Johnson City should not become a tobacco center. By 1890 residents boasted of two tobacco warehouses, a plug tobacco factory, and a cigar factory in their promotional material. The small town of Abingdon in Washington County, Virginia, was already a tobacco...

... the dropsy—every one of them.” The proper plan was to kill these stock, use them as fertilizer, and get newer, better stock. In the meantime, railroad managers must refrain from “the too copious use of fine wines, cigars and expensive imported clothing.” Farmer concluded his advice with the New South mantra...

..., such as that of the gaucho, women achieved a more permanent status as wives and producers, weaving cloth, growing produce, and even making cigars, but they remained excluded from the world of men and cattle. So, as culture in general became more human-focused and arguably more patriarchal, the image that represented human...

..., an equal number of furniture dealers, a couple of meat markets, as well as assorted blacksmiths and harness makers. Richmond could boast of a cigar manufacturer, and Cold Spring even had a wholesale wine merchant. Each village could claim a doctor, both had flour mills, and both had hotels that catered...