Patrick, I invite you to stay on the hunt, and as someone suggested these could have been in the stores for awhile (I confess I do not know the shelf life of smokes, now or then). Still, it seems very unlikely to me that they would make a formal announcement in March of 1910 that the cards were coming if they did not expect them to get distributed for another year.
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Now watch what you say, or they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal
Won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.- Ulysses S. Grant, 18th US President.
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