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Old 06-02-2013, 09:27 AM
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Originally Posted by wolf441 View Post
Thanks for the posts Leon and those are beautiful cards! I agree that tobacco and candy products (as well as bread, baking, etc) would be lumped together on catalogs and invoices. You'd have to think that any decent general store at the time would have sold all of these products.
Of course they would. Even today both candy and tobacco are often distributed by the same company. Sometimes other stuff as well. The local one here in Lowell has been around since 1890. Used to be Notini tobacco, but changed to Notini and sons a few years ago.

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