Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-08-01

and sales OF tobacco IN SOUTH
Carolina is long and fairly vari-
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South Carolina Department of
Agriculture, 60 back to 1907
nearly so years ago.
Know what the tobacco farm
ers received for their not-so-|
Golden Week back there I'M
1909? Well, the average peri
hundred pounds was $685..
That's a far cry from today'sI
$4,000 and up averages. But rel
onember, back in those days mott
too many men smoked cigar
cites. And If a woman dared
drag on one in public she was
very likely to be ostracized FROM
polite society.
Very Few Cigarettes
AS a matter of fact, most to-
baccoS used back in the earlierI
days of the crop in Horny were
for chewing tobacco, smoking
tobacco, snuff and cigars.
" Even the few cigarettes made
back when Horny first started
selling tobacco you never heard
of this day and time. Some of
the brands on the market back
in the earlier days were Sow
ereign, Sweet Caporal and Reno.
And in those earlier days the
cigarette manufacturers were
using tricks to sell their pro-
ducts which almost come upto
9ome of the advertising schemes
of today.
In most packs of cigarettes
there were coupons. BY saving
them up you could get new
woodworking cook slower, a
pair of shoes, or something else
very unitarian. They didn't
have many fancy automobiles,
electrical appliances and what
not to give out as prizes in those
days.
Players Collections
One of the chief advertising
gimmicks of the earlier days of
cigarettes was this: Pictures of
popular baseball players Of the
day were included in the pack
of cigarettes. Small boys collect
ed these pictures, given them
by their dads, and the small fry
did a lively business in trading
off the various pictures to get
complete sets. Some of the play
yrs pictures included in the
packs of early cigarettes were
Ty Cobb, alb Lajoie, Hans Wag-
ner, Amos Rusie, Eddie Plank,
etc. Famous in their days, yes,
but their names mean nothing
10 the prcSent-day youngsters,
just as Sovereigns, Renos and
Sweet CaporalS mean little to
prCSCnt-day smokers.
Back there in 1909 there was
q total of 31,82O,50l pounds of
tobacco sold on South Carolina
markets.
Sales Drop Back
In 1910. when total sales drop
ped back down to a little more
than 100000 pounds, the
price average went up, slightly,
10 $3.50 per hundred. In 1911
the price took a nice jump, when
only ll,l0l,O0O pounds were
sold. Average that year was
$3.50 per hundred.
In 1912 total sales went up
over 24,000,00O pounds. but that
3 price average dipped back to
z $1,000.
But let's take a look at the
figures for the years in the to-
Dacco business in South Caro-
linaback to 1909.
Here's the year. total pounds,
total amount of money and the
average rate:
~l9O9-3l82O,501, S2,315,1O7.3 3
$685..
1910 - 1s,sO2,s75, s1,6O4.44
$3.50.
1911 = 11,lo1, Oo6, s1,352,3s2
"a, $3.50.
1912 - 24,ss7,sl2, s2,653, 443,-
63, $1,000.
19l3-33,3s9,561, s4,5s4, 339.51
s1377.
19l4-41,1O1,65l, s3,979, 3O3.s2
A6S.
19l5-s7,o9 ,2s4, s2,765, 372.lo
STOP.
19l6-2o,O79,9o3, s2,s13,44s.87
Sail.
1917-51, oso,o8s, s11,7e4,4s1.72
S2409.
! 1882, ,631, s19.811,4s7.-
86, S31.O6.
4 1910 - S1,156,47O, s18,54a,-
4 559.15, S2O.1O.
1920 - 66,343,611, S15,8O5, 685-
1921 - 1888, 5s6, 1881, o2s.-
O3, S11.21.
1926, 586,756, S8.743.0 61 90
S20.53.
1923-77,791, 783, s16,29O.O45.-
%, S20.94.
1924-45,521 ,6O4, 1892, 1880
S1624.
l925-7O,S63,812, s11,7O6, 7O1.-
"a, S16.52.
H926-56,775,614, s13,411,420.-
81, S23.62.
l927-75, 579.367 S15,471, $50