The cards may have been distributed " nationally ", but I wonder what the definition of nationally was in 1914. National distribution in 2014 is coast to coast and boarder to boarder, and everywhere in between. In 1914, did national distribution really cover coast to coast, or was it to the Mississippi River from the east coast? How many people in LA, SF, Denver, Seattle, Portland, Phoenix ect. were snacking on CJ and pulling a card out of the box? I imagine very few were. The population base was east of the MS. River, and that IMO, would be the primary, if not all of the distribution of CJ.
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