Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-06-08

4ncu IFHpi lmltRtOrS as dravelv.
a short review OF the plug to-
aacca business it is believed
would be interesting, especially
20 the younger generation. TheI
began to manufactured
chewing tobacco III 1881 att
keatherwood. Va. moved the
business to Danville In the year,
OF 1869. The development of the
plug tobacco is singularly cen-
tered in the Gravely Company
It has passed through all of the
stages of tobacco manufacture.
Peyton Gravely. the first. in.
vented tobacco mould and was
the first man to make a plug of
tobacco. He was also the first
man who found that licorice was
as good for tobacco as salt was
for meat.
Soon after beginning in 1881,
Peyton Gravely established 2
reputation as the manufacturer
of the finest tobacco. Pride in
his achievement has been the
dominant inspiration of all who
have succeeded him here to ex-
eel all other manufacturers in
the quality of their tobacco. The
Gravely Company is not satisfied
unless the quality of their plug
is better than anyone else can
make. The tradition and stand
ing i'll a business is just as valu.
able as it is in a family /; every
! one who is worth while tries to
live up to it and add somethine
more to 1t.
| The celebrated "Grayely Hone,
Dew" Brand is the oldest brant
OF plug tobacco in the world
When plug tobacco was frs
made, beam loaded with ston,
was lowered on to the mould
; Later, jack screws were substi
tuted. Today hydraulic presse
are used, and the plug is places
in pressure retainers for month
! before the tobacco is ready 70
shipment. This "Gravely Hone
, Dew" has gone through ever
r development and improvement il
/ the manufacture of plug. NOV
= the Honey Dew Brand will! b
[ the first brand to have the ne,
t inventions of perfect poke
pouch and square-cut plug az
, piled to it.
II The Weymau-Bruton Co., no
t Broadway, New York, had paten
= rights for this pouch and the
looked the country over seekiui
E the finest quality of plug tobacc
r made. They found it right her
in Danville, made by the P. I
s Gravely Tobacco Co. 1t wa
, natural that the owners of til
a factory making the finest Tobacco
and the owners of the only pei
D feet pouch should join forces, tn
4 one to manufacture. and the othe
| to distribute the tobacco throug
z their sales force.
The citizens of Dauville ar
b probabl not aware that til
+, Weyman.Bruton Co. has a fore
: Of statesmen in every State an
e territory in this country. 1t
t a fair prediction that this unto
Z of Gravely Plug Tobacco, IT,
J Patent Sanito Pouch, and til
/ Patent Square-Cut plug, WI
! revolutionize the plug Tobacco,
. business. as a large proportion
OF the men WHO use plug tobacc,
want real good tobacco made i,
a sanitary factory, and so pack
. ed that it reaches their ow,
hands fresh, clean and good
The users of ordinary plug to.
bacco will probably continue tc
get their plug out of the old
wooden box exposed to dust and
dirt, but the users of good to-
bacco will soon learn that they
can now get real Gravely in
pouches and that the pouch keeps
the plug fresh.
The Grasely Company liza.
adopted Protection Seal, which,
will be placed upon all of it's to-
bacco. The days of imitators of
Grave1y have been numbered, be
cause other manufacturers will
be quick t. see and understand
that the Gravely Company has
now fixed it so that it will be not
only Improbable in the end, but
injurious to their own standing
and reputation OH whatever other
business they may have, for
them to do business on an imita.
ton of Gravely Tobacco.
Watch this business grow.
The citizens of Danville MA,