Read Part 1, Part 3, and Part 4 of this story. The cigar manufacturing industry was huge in the late 19th, early 20th century. Every major city had literally hundreds of cigar factories; smaller ...
BLOOMINGTON - "I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time," Mark Twain once said. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, before the rise of mass-produced cigarettes, cigars were ...
DALLAS — A few hundred feet from a Hong Kong tailor, several fast food joints and an Albertson’s in the Casa Linda neighborhood of East Dallas, Jose Hernandez is rolling cigars. Hernandez, 34, grew up ...