Mocking Bird Smoking Tobacco Co.
 

Posted By: <b>Bruce Babcock</b><p>Has anyone ever heard of the Mocking Bird Smoking Tobacco Co.? My wife discovered, in reading a bio of William Styron, that his grandfather, Alpheus, along with a partner, ran this North Carolina company around 1890. They sold bags of loose tobacco for 5 cents each, and had about 100 employees, until driven out of business by Buck Duke and the American Tobacco Company.<br /><br />No mention if they included baeball cards with their product!