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COURIER ' . Waterloo, Iowa April 11, 1962' ~. S><nokers Pay. . NEAV YORK (UPI) - Mttt,e ta~cea on tobacco products rose Dettrly 50 per cent durlag', the two ysar period 1959,60, accord- iog to the trade publicatian To+ beoco ltiews. PIONEER PRESS St. Paul, Minn April 17, 1962 biore than 4.6 million dol. lars has been appropriatedd for cancer resear& by the. i o l}Ly x.p indust.r,v researcK 1't.ntlnitt~;.. C LU ~~ 3~~~~~'~I `~ . Anderson, Indiana April 19, 1962 t Tbbacco taxes add 65 per cent tb` the cost of smokin.-: IV03:53r)G`)G T HERALD JOURNAL Syracuse, N.Y. March 23, 1962 91~OW POke N*nV YORPC (NANA)-A tcba - ~ co~e eil increases its weig t 20 r~ion times in about fiae months; an acorn makes a mm- parable increase in 100 years, a ,1,-tanict has fivured. '-_ I L BEE Sacramento, Calif. May 11, 1962' Gloveland's 1Mife Was Dariin9, Srniok+ed' WASHQNGTONi - By the: end of the 1880s, smokin cigaret in pybllc was s t an. C act of daring for a woman. Mrs. Grover. Cleveland was une of, the -darbdg ones. She offered cigaiets to her women guests at ttie White House asy early as 1889. ; CMONICLE, Houston, Teacas April 4, 1962' Tht; Ameriran fievotution. tvas fjnanced in part by a loan backed by fsive milliion pounds of Virgin tobacco. Benjamin Fran-kiua helpce g~et the mon, ey frorn, France. REPLTBhI CAN ~ , SpringfiEld; Alari l 8, 1962 The American Revolution .+as financed' in part b.v a loan backed by fi.,e milt:on pocn(is ob Virginia thli Een.iamin Franklin he pf er' e2t :he rr.onie; - from France. ~i .3 3'~ S-PICA NewOrlearcts, La. April 15, 1962 PATIOTIC TOBACCO The American lLexo~'Tu-M`on ~was financed in part by a loan backed by five million pounds of Virginia timhacco.Bienjamin .Franklin helped get the money from France. _5 r ~ `~ J~ POST Denver, Colorado April 8, 1962' T1OBACVO HELPED L,IBERTY ' Te American Revolution was financed' in part by' a loann backediby 5 million pounds of Virginia tobacco. Benjamin Franklin *elped' get the money from France. B[1LL.E1"IN' Philadelphia, Pa. May 1, 1962' tobacco Dispenser ~ Bulk tobacco was autiomatii 'cally dispe`nsed by vending ma- chinw In English~ pubs of, the early 1600s. MORNING GLOBE Boston, Mass. May 10, 1962 19 ttbccgi n Somenao-rownga=: • tions have issued special post. age stamps honoring tobacco. The United States is one of'the few t~obacc countries (tobacco is out^- fmurth largest agricul- tural cash~crop) that has not dnne so. ToliaI OLte%' Warehouse receipt~ for uo- bacco became the first •'palH•r money" in the American col- •ontes, and was used' to re,Y taxes. Teachers ard clergy men were Datd in tobaccol r 2 1~ D -1 ST Kansas City, Missouri May 6,, 1962 Warehouse receipts frir bohac- co became the first "Fa, er. money"' in the American cnl-; onies, and' was used to p;iv: taxes. Teachers andl clorgymen.. were paidi in, tabacco. Ai wedding ceremony cost 2l10 pounds of lea:f, a funeral servicP 400 pounds, IaaS (7'Ib HERM,ExAMINEPt Inos Angeles, Calif. May 11, 1962 NO WONDER: ` WAiSI?fPdIGTON tUpI)--Ditd ,yoU ever wonder why P- to- bacr,o auctioneer talks so, fast? Well. arcortling tio. t.hPi To i;JJnStiitute. Irac. he ;;iiilst sell ur to 400 piles of tobacco ani hour: or nearly seven piles a nlinirtp. A pile is u'Sualdy •ahneit 194 poutnrlR. ERIE 1 DIC>353 7GSIP/ Wichita, Kansas Apri 1 7, 1962 To'bacco Takaes Wor+<' ... _. ; NEW YORK.- Gro.viiag; to. bacco takes 378'man hours acre-far more than any oth-a~' field crop, the Tobacco Icsf:, t1a'e reports. It says corn quires 1'0.2 man hours and :c.: ' ton 66. ~ -1