New at the Business.

1895

Scene in a dry goods store which has lately added a cigar department:

Salesman (transferred from linen stock, to customer, an old smoker, — Ah, good morning, sir! What can I show you today? Here are some lovely Henry Clay perfectos — from the same house, sir, that sends us the Clay worsteds, which you will find at the cloth counter.

(Customer looks surprised.)

"Yes, sir, and just look at this pretty bunch of imported Manila cheroots! We have them in all shades and sizes, sir. And the ribbon around this bunch exactly matches your four-in-hand."

(Customer glares.)

"Or perhaps you would like this sweet meerschaum pipe? It is warranted not to change color or show smoke marks."

(Customer gets red in the face.)

"Chewing tobacco, sir? Yes, sir. Will you have a yard or two yards?"

(Customer explodes into violent language and salesman faints.) — Buffalo Express.

Instinct Betrayed Him

1895

A curious story is told by our Vienna correspondent. A young man, the representative of a large firm, who carried a large sum of money with him, recently spent the night at a hotel at Presburg. As usual, he remained some time smoking in bed. Suddenly the burning cigar fell to the floor. He bent over to extinguish it, when he saw a hand projected from under the bed put the cigar out. It made him very uncomfortable. He lay awhile, and then, saying aloud: "How very cold! I shall get my fur coat!" He jumped out of bed, flew to the door and cried for help. The would be robber was caught. He confessed he knew the occupant of the room had money, which he hoped to get while he slept. He had been a fireman formerly and could not resist the impulse to extinguish the burning cigar. — London News.

High Priced Cigars

1895

The Rothschilds of London are said to smoke the most costly brand of cigars made — the "Grandos de Cuba," made at Havana. They are sent to the millionaire bankers wrapped in gold leaf and packed in inlaid rosewood cabinets. Each cabinet contains 11,000 cigars, and they are ordered in lots of four cabinets, or 44,000 at a time. Each consignment costs the millionaire princes $66,000, or at the rate of $1.50 for each cigar.

The 20,000 Havanas made for Marshal Prim, who presented them to Napoleon III, cost 30,000 francs and were at that time considered the height of extravagant smoking. Each was tipped at both ends with gold leaf and marked in the center with an imperial "N." out from the same material. — St. Louis Republic.


The Boy Knew His Business

A gentleman on the cars was recently offered a novel by Honore de Balzac. "New novel, sir," cried the trainboy. "This is just out. It's by the last new writer of Paris."
The gentleman glanced at the title page. "Did you say that was a new novel?" asked the traveler.
"Yes, sir; just out."
"The man who wrote it has been dead for years."
But the boy was equal to the occasion.
"Pshaw!" said he, "this isn't the old man — it's his son." — Cincinnati Tribune.


An Outrage

"What's the judge going to do now?" asked the green juror in a whisper.
"He's going to charge the jury," said the foreman.
"Charge the jury? Charge us? What for? we don't have to pay nothing for the privilege of sitting on a jury, do we?" — London Tit-Bits.

The Land of Cigars

1895

NEARLY EVERYBODY IN CUBA MAKES OR SMOKES THEM.

Interesting Facts About the Big Factories In Havana — The Real Thing at 2 Cents Apiece and Others at $2 — Cigarettes Are Also Very Popular

I have never seen a Havana man smoking in church. It's about the only place where he does not smoke. He smokes in the street cars, he smokes at the public dining table, he smokes everywhere. The presence of women is not considered at all. When coffee is brought on the table, the Spaniard or Cuban lights his cigar or cigarette and begins to send up clouds of smoke. He never even thinks of saying to the ladies, "By your leave," for the custom of the country is to smoke everywhere. On the railway trains there is no smoking compartment, for a man is privileged, and, in fact, expected to smoke everywhere. If he is not smoking, his neighbor will offer him a cigarette. The driver of your coach will smoke and very likely offer you a cheroot.

At the opera the men will walk and smoke between the acts in the spaces behind the boxes and balconies. You will see finely dressed, seemingly well bred men, with ladies in full evening toilet, entering the theater and smoking as they go. You never see a pipe in Cuba. It is the country of the cigar and the cigarette. One of the odd sights to a stranger is that afforded by the negro women, who smoke big, long and black cigars in the street. It was here that the smoking habit, which has spread around the world, had its start, and the Cubans are still more devoted to their cigars than any other people. The cigar industry and the tobacco trade give employment to a large portion of the population of Havana. In every quarter one will run across small establishments where from two to ten men are employed making cigars and some children and women engaged in stripping tobacco.

There are many large factories, employing, some of them, several hundred men and women. Some of these factories make cigarettes as well as cigars. The cigarettes are made out of strong Cuban tobacco, but have the negative virtue of being pure, untinctured tobacco. In every house or office building the porter, who sits in the entresol, is engaged all day long in rolling cigarettes. He has a little table in front of him, where the tobacco and paper are spread out, and he is constantly at work. In this way the porter adds to his income. A vast quantity of cigarettes are smoked here as well as cigars. When the Cuban is not smoking cigars, he is smoking cigarettes.

It is not to be supposed that all the cigars made or smoked in Havana are fine cigars. The best tobacco comes from one district near Havana known as Vuelto Abajo, and the quality of that often varies on different plantations and in different seasons. Much tobacco is raised in other districts which is not of a superior kind and has not the rich flavor that makes fine Havana cigars sought after in all parts of the world. A good deal, probably most of the very highest grade tobacco, is secured for the makers of famous brands of cigars in Havana.

Some of the owners of big cigar factories have plantations of their own and options on the product of other plantations famed for the quality of their leaf, but many of the cigars sold here at a low price are just as rank as any ever produced in the United States, and worse, because they are stronger. One cannot get a very pleasant impression from a visit to a cigar factory. In the large factories the plumbing and sanitary arrangements are unusually bad, and the buildings are filled with had odors, which, mingling with that of the tobacco, have anything but a pleasing effect. Two or three hundred men will be at work in a poorly ventilated room that does not afford proper breathing space for more than a hundred. Neatness and cleanliness are not conspicuous characteristics, either of the men at work rolling cigars or of the hundreds of girls and children engaged in stripping tobacco. If one wants to thoroughly enjoy a fine Havana cigar, if he has over visited one of the factories he will have to obliterate the memory of the visit from his mind.

The fine grades of cigars sell at retail in Havana for less than half the price one would have to pay in the United States — that is, one will buy for 10 cents a cigar that would cost him in Washington 20 or 25 cents, and for 5 cents a cigar he would pay 10 or 15 cents for at home. Then there are cigars or cheroots sold for 1 or 2 cents. The ordinary retail price for a package of cigarettes is 5 cents. The cigars affected here are of the largest sizes, 6 or 8 inches in length, and some of them an inch in diameter.

The very finest cigars made here go to England. Some of them cost $1 each here at wholesale. The men who make these cigars are paid 30 cents each for the making of them. They are made with the greatest care, every bit of leaf in them being selected and especially treated and the rolling and wrapping being done by the most skillful of cigar makers. One of these men engaged in making those $1 cigars will not make more than 20 or 30 in a day. He is supplied with a certain amount of tobacco when he begins work in the morning, and when he turns in the product of his day's labor at night must account for all the tobacco. The cigars are carefully inspected, and if any defect, the slightest crack or a variation in color, is discovered in a cigar it is rejected. The cigar maker is paid only for the perfect cigars. In the best factories the rejected cigars are smoked up by the employees.

In some factories where cigars not of the very finest quality are made the rejected cigars are boxed and sold as "seconds." In all the factories the cigar makers are privileged to smoke all they want of their own product and to take a pocketful of cigars with them when they go out at night. Of course this is in part at their own expense, for they are paid for the cigars they turn in. One will see cigars for sale at the stands here for as much as 80 cents or $1. Some of them are packed separately in glass tubes, so as to preserve their elusive Cuban flavor. A cigar costing $1 here would cost $2 in the United States, and a man who smoked half a dozen of them a day ought to pay a pretty good income tax. — Havana Cor. Washington Star.

The First Cigars

1895

The Havana Variety Was Smoked In Paris as Long Ago as 1813.

When were cigars first smoked? According to a French authority who has been making investigations in this subject, the weed in this shape was not introduced into France till the return of the French army from Spain in 1823. This fact is on the authority of Hippolyte Auger, the dramatic author, who writes thus in his memoirs:

"Our return from Paris was by way of Orleans. On the route we met quite frequently officers returning from Spain. They had generally cigars in their mouths — a new habit, since become general. From this point of view the campaign of 1823 had the good financial result of establishing a new branch of import trade."

Another document, however, carries back the use of the cigar to a slightly earlier period. The "Hermit of the Chassee d'Antin," 1813, going to see his nephew, a young officer at Paris, finds him at his hotel in morning costume and smoking a Havana cigar. The taste for cigars seems at this time to have been sufficiently extended to make them a common article in the stock of every grocer who was careful to cater to the wants of his customers. — New York World.

Booming a Cigar

1895

"Do you know how to boom a cigar?" asked the advertising man.

The other man confessed his ignorance.

"Well, I've taken hold of a new cigar with instructions to make it a 'go,' no matter what it costs. Here are a few of the schemes: Of course I use the newspapers first and last, but I've got some other ideas. I've ordered some wooden cigars 6 feet long, which are to be carried through the streets. It takes two men to carry one cigar. Then I've sent out about 25,000 postal cards to men who smoke good cigars, and on each card it says, 'Present me at the nearest cigar store and get a —— cigar for 8 cents!' See? That postal card is good for 2 cents when applied on the purchase of one of our cigars. There won't be many of them presented, but it will be a good 'ad.,' and every man who gets one will be attracted by the novelty of the scheme. Then I'm going to put music boxes in the cigar stores and have the music come out of little organ pipes made in the shape of our cigar and labeled. Every dealer in the city gets a blue print cartoon each morning to hang in his window. Mention of the cigar is the biggest part of the cartoon. I'll send private boxes of the cigars to club stewards and well known dealers. When I've done all that, I'll try something else." — Chicago Record.

The Blind Smoker's Cigar

1901

We are often told that a man who is smoking in the dark would be unable to tell whether his cigar were alight or no unless he could see the red glow at the end of it. So, too, a man with his eyes shut would have great difficulty in telling whether he were drinking port or sherry. Now, as I have been blind for upward of 30 years I am unluckily somewhat fairly qualified to contest the validity of this statement. I was a smoker for 20 years before my infirmity crept upon me, and I am smoking even now as I dictate this letter. In fact, I have smoked all my life.

To say that I do not know whether my cigar is alight or no because I cannot see either the smoke or the red glow at the end of the weed is simply absurd. The taste alone is sufficient to tell me accurately. The one is infinitely pleasurable and flavorable and the other exceedingly disagreeable and objectionable. Tongue, palate and odor are incontrovertible testifiers. I grant that the pleasure of smoking is lessened by the absence of the sight of the smoke, but only slightly, and to assert that I do not know whether I am smoking or not is as much as to say I do not know whether I am standing on my head or my heels. — Saturday Review.

Would Rather Smoke Than Eat

1901

"One day," writes an American in Havana, "I came across an old Cuban woman sitting disconsolately on a rock near Morro castle. She told me in Spanish that for three days she had had nothing to eat but a loaf of bread and coffee. She looked it. I gave her a Spanish dollar and followed in her wake. She entered the first cafe she came to and bought a drink and a cigar. I couldn't help laughing to see her as she walked along the street puffing away at the weed purchased with my money. She seemed perfectly contented. The Cubans, even the women, would rather smoke than eat. They take only two meals a day, breakfast about 10 o'clock and dinner at 4 in the afternoon."

Few Old Signs Left

1920

Many of the familiar trade signs used to advertise business enterprises have been discarded entirely in the onward sweep of advertising progress or displaced by more or less artistic displays of paint and electric lights.

One of the most common of the oldtimers that has vanished, says the New York Sun, was the wooden Indian, which kept its silent, stolid vigil beside the door of the tobacconist. The significant boot that once was suspended over the shop of the repairer of boots and shoes is also only a memory. So are the anvil hanging above the entrance to the blacksmith's shop and the horse's heads over livery-men's doorways.

The origin of the cigar store Indian dates back to Sir Walter Raleigh and his English settlers in our sunny South. These fortune seekers, visiting the unseen New World in the seventeenth century, and for the first time in the history of the white race learning the use of the tobacco weed from the North American Indian, symbolized this industry by the red man's imposing figure.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Jan. 3, 1920, p. 6.

To Remove the Cigar Band

1905

Simple Device That Will Often Prevent Spoiling Good Smoke

Only a few years ago the placing of a band around a cigar was unknown and when it appeared first the band of paper was to be seen only around the finest brands of smokers. At first it was a badge of excellence, but later was adopted by all cigar manufacturers who advertised their goods, and the band developed into a mere means of identification, which has often had the object of preventing substitution of inferior goods.

The use of the band has become so general that there seems to be a demand for some means of readily removing the same. One might think that this was a matter of no difficulty, but it is a well known fact to cigar smokers that most bands are placed on cigars so tightly that it is difficult to remove them. In attempting to remove the band with the finger-nail or with the point of a knife it frequently happens that the wrapper of the cigar is so punctured or torn as to injure the smoking quality of the cigar, if not entirely to destroy it.

To facilitate the removal of the band an inventor has conceived the idea of making use of a thread, string or cord under the band, having the ends thereof projecting beyond the edges of the band brought together and tied into a knot, forming a loop. This loop can be readily taken hold of by the thumb and finger and by pulling on it the band will be readily severed without marring the cigar wrapper in the least. This severing device may be placed under the band after the band is put upon the cigar, or it may be put on the cigar at the time that the wrapper is placed there on.

Filipino Bride Smokes a Cigar

New York, 1910

With a fat cigar between her little white teeth, the first Filipino bride-to-be ever received in the marriage license bureau of this city walked down the steps of the city hall the other day. With her was a little brown man, who through an interpreter admitted the pair wished to be married.

Both bride and bridegroom hail from the mountain districts of Luzon, Philippines, and both are living in Coney Island, where they are members of an amusement park show.

Miss Tu-Go-Dan, the prospective wife, and A'lao, the man, were accompanied to the city hall by Chief Chemingo, ceremonial chief of the Bontoc or head-hunting Filipino tribe.

The couple were much amused by the ceremony, the little brown girl smiling broadly at everyone. Immediately after the tying of the knot, Mrs. A'loa brought out a package of cigars and coolly lighted one. — New York Press.


Sympathy from Chicago

The people of Cleveland have adopted a civic motto. It is: "Onward, Cleveland, onward," If the citizens who are in favor of the abolition of the smoke nuisance there could have had their way the new motto would doubtless have been: "Hurry, Cleveland, hurry."

The Kissing Cashier of Paris

1905

Ideas That Draw Custom

Proprietors of European Cafes Show Enterprise

In many of the European cafes of the cheaper order it is the invariable custom to print the daily menu on the napkin provided for the guest, so that when the latter desires to study the bill of fare he has to raise his serviette from his knee in order to do so.

But perhaps the most extraordinary custom in connection with restaurant life is that which obtains in a certain little cafe in the suburbs of Paris, where every customer whose bill amounts to 25 cents or over is entitled to receive a kiss from the very attractive young lady who acts as cashier to the establishment.

So used has the damsel become to the osculatory routine that she goes through it without the slightest reticence, looking upon it purely as a matter of business, and it is reported that the proprietor of the restaurant is more than satisfied with the result of his curious device for attracting patrons.

Another enterprising restauranteur has instituted the practice of making a present of a box of Havana cigars every New Year's day to those patrons who have been pretty regular in their attendance at his establishment during the preceding year.

Runaway Returns Home

1915

This is going to be a Merry Christmas at the Mohr home, 10 St. Mark's place, New York City. For Sophia has returned. Her voluntary return cleared up her mysterious disappearance. She had been working as a "stripper" in a cigar factory at Hartford, Conn., while the police of the country were searching for her.


Miss Snow Elopes With Mr. Blizzard

PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 16. — It has just been learned that Miss Bessie Snow, 25 West High street, Germantown, eloped with George Blizzard. The bride is 19 years old, the bridegroom 27.


Troubles

Making light of your troubles is the best way to dispel darkness.

Easy Company

1900

Frenchmen are born diplomatists, yet in a free and unguarded moment even one of that tactful race will sometimes speak his mind without a tinge of flattery.

Such an ungarnished speech is recorded of a young Frenchman who, during a visit in London, was taken to see Madame Tussaud's famous waxworks.

"What do you think of them?" asked the friend who was acting as guide on that occasion. "Oh," said the young man, with a slight shrug, "they seem to me very like the people at an ordinary English party, only perhaps a little stiller."


Rewards of Fame

The Chicago Tribune intimates that, even if "republics are ungrateful," our great men are not forgotten.

"Still," said the old friend who had called to converse with the venerable sage, "in your advancing age it must be a comfort to know your fame is secure."

"Yes," replied the aged scientist, "I am told there is a new disease and a five-cent cigar named for me." — Youth's Companion.

Cigar Dealer Flogged by Angry Woman

1901

Cigar Dealer and Alleged Gambling House Keeper Publicly Horsewhipped At St. Joseph

St Joseph, Mich., Jan. 31. — The public horsewhipping of an alleged gambling-house keeper by an angry wife furnished no end of excitement at Buchanan yesterday, and placed that village well up in the rank with Kansas towns that have felt the rigorous moralizing efforts of Mrs. Nation.

The victim of the chastisement was "Skette" Rough, keeper of what purports to be a candy and cigar store, but which wives who have felt a shortening of their allowances on their husband's pay days say houses a voracious "kitty."

The Michigan disciple of strenuous reform methods is Mrs. J. Voorhees, and she had at her back half the feminine part of the population of the village. Not the least of Rough's torment were the gibes and jeers of these women, all of whom seemed to think they had a score to settle and a duty to perform, and put as much feeling in their tongue lashings as did Mrs. Voorhees in hers with the thong.

In addition several hundred spectators crowded about and howled with delight as the infuriated woman belabored the back of the cigar dealer. Twice he attempted to break away, but did not succeed until the woman had broken her whip in several places over his body.

—Davenport Daily Republican, Davenport, IA, Feb. 1, 1901, p. 3.

An Old Man's Leap to Death — A Thrilling Suicide

1878

An Old Man's Leap to Death

A thrilling suicide took place one forenoon recently at St. Louis, an unhappy mortal leaping from the railing of the great bridge to the water, 110 feet below, meeting instant death.

A few moments previous to the occurrence the man started across from the eastern shore, leaving a letter in the hands of the ticket-seller on the other side addressed to a friend in East St. Louis, in which he deplored the circumstances which led to the suicide, and gave directions to be made of the few effects he left behind.

After leaving the ticket office on the other side, he pursued his way to the center span of the bridge, and one of the watchmen on the bridge saw him looking down into the swift current below with an abstracted air, as though undecided what course to pursue. But the watchman, never dreaming that he contemplated suicide, paid no special attention to him. Suddenly he divested himself of his outer apparel, coat and vest, and hastily climbing over the railing, he cast one imploring look upward, his lips moving as if in prayer, and then made the fatal leap into eternity.

Before the watchman, who was hastening toward him, could do anything to prevent the terrible fate that awaited the poor fellow, his body, as he made the frightful leap, was seen shooting through the air, and finally it was lost to sight beneath the muddy waters. One of the ferry-boats was crossing at the time, and the pilot took the boat near to the post where the man had alighted, but the body had sunk from view.

The bridge watchman found the coat and vest of the suicide near the spot from which he jumped, and took them, together with a pine stick which the suicide had carried, to the Third district station, where, upon examining the pockets, a letter was found addressed to Nixon or Dixon, the initials torn off, by M. O. Brown, dealer in tobacco and cigars, at Pleasant Hills, Illinois.

A few hours after the tragic act, the body was found 400 yards below the bridge. It was then ascertained that the suicide was an old man sixty years of age, named George Hickson, who has lived some time in East St. Louis, and that he had resolved upon self-destruction on account of a domestic difficulty with his son-in-law, John Girard. Hickson traveled with Barnum's circus a long time, exhibiting his son, a noted dwarf.

My Lady Nicotine — Curious Meditations on Smoking

1903

My Lady Nicotine

Curious Meditations Upon the Smoking Habit

There must be a great army of men who smoke an ounce of tobacco a day. Such worthy smokers are, of course, men of a philosophic and reflecting disposition, although they do not always care to favor the world with the results of the high meditations due to the influence of the soothing weed.

It will be new, even to many of these, to know that it would take no less than 9S years to dispose of a ton of tobacco at this rate of consumption, says Tit-Bits, and it will be still more surprising to consider the magnitude of this amount under various aspects.

The smoker of an ounce a day is almost invariably a faithful disciple of the pipe. He may submit to a cigar or a cigaret to please the ladies, but the pipe remains his true love. Hence we will first suppose that our ton of tobacco is to be sacrificed to My Lady Nicotine in the homely pipe. If the ordinary ounce packets in which the tobacco is probably bought were piled in a single column they would tower to a height of 2,700 feet. Arranged in a solid block they would form a cube of packed "shag" measuring 13 feet in every direction, or more than twice the height of a man.

We might conceive a pipe specially built to consume this mass. Such a pipe, if built on the plan of the familiar briar would be 100 feet long, and the bowl would be 20 feet in diameter. This bowl could accommodate 700 men. Should the smoker of such a huge pipeful prefer the "church warden" he would obtain a graceful clay 500 feet long.

On a low average two matches are used to each pipe of tobacco. After his 750,000 pipes the smoker would have used as many matches as would stretch from London to Coventry, or Bath or Gloucester, if placed end to end. The timber would be barely contained in a grove of 20 stalwart trees each 40 feet high. The heat energy represented, and which is largely water, would serve to run a locomotive a considerable distance.

We must not forgot that there are many who prefer the mild cigaret. Let us consider our ton of tobacco in this form. There will be a considerable difference in the actual number of cigarets consumed if the smoker makes his own in preference to buying them ready made. In the former case he will burn no fewer than 1,000,000 in fragrant smoke; a quantity which is placed in order would make a thin white line from London to Brighton, and in the latter case they would stretch for 37 miles. Placed side by side, they would pave a small pathway five miles long.

Could we make these cigarets into one huge whole, we should obtain a cigaret 10 feet in diameter and nearly 100 feet long. A man built in proportion to enjoy this little smoke would be a mere 2,220 feet high. The consumer of this tobacco may, like Svengali, be a lover of the big cigar of the Havana. If so, he must be prepared to spend at least £3,000, of which 500 pounds will be wasted in fag-ends.

The Jollier (humor column)

1922

A big wheat crop is predicted. Say it with flour.

These June nights are even better than the famous Arabian nights.

Nineteen seniors at an Ohio girls' college are engaged. And yet people ask: "Does education help?"

A success is a self-starter. A failure is a self-stopper.

Hint to Ireland: An alley-apple a day won't keep the doctor away.

At the time of going to press another movie star was married.

In Indiana, a janitor stole $80,000 from the bank. This was the best he ever cleaned up.

An optimist is a man who plants an orchard near a school house.

Thanks to radio broadcasting sermons, a man can stay at home and claim he has been at church.

One way to keep a daughter at home is to feed her on onions.

A school of politics for women has opened. First lesson should be smoking bum cigars.

It's an unlucky angler who doesn't even catch one to lie about.

Americans in Germany say they are charged too much. Germans want them to feel at home.

This business revival could stand a little more shouting.

The only objection to living in the country is you have to go to town for your vacation.

No girl buying clothes wants the most she can get for her money.

In Detroit, a madman whipped his landlord and escaped. But all mad men can't do that.

We will investigate Turkish atrocities. The Turks will be glad to give a demonstration.

—The Coshocton Tribune, Coshocton, Ohio, June 19, 1922, page 4.

A Man's Character Seen in How He Handles a Cigar

1921

NOTE HOW FRIEND SMOKES

It Is Said Man's Character Can Be Told by His Handling of His Cigar.

According to an enterprising American scientist a man's character can now be told from the way he smokes cigars.

The man who smokes is easily recognized. His lips will show it, without his speaking. He who fixes his cigar deeply in his mouth is of a nature resolute, skeptical and abrupt; one who bites off the end of his cigar is careless, thoughtless or listless.

When the cutter is used to nip off the end, the smoker may be considered a man of caution. The user of the amber holder is a delicate person. The man who smokes his cigar to the end is a faithful friend, a constant husband and of a persevering nature.

If one is in the habit of throwing away the cigar when only half-smoked, he is in danger of being considered fickle, blasé and a trifler.

—Mexica Evening News, Mexia, Texas, January 6, 1921, page 2.

Unknown Friends Assist Mrs. Boyle

Has Bank Account While Husband Begs For Stogies.

Mercer, Pa., April 21. - It was learned here that the effort of former Judge Miller, counsel for Mrs. James H. Boyle in the Whitla abduction case, to have the Ohio courts claim jurisdiction over the woman, had fallen flat. The Ohio authorities expect to take no action unless the woman's conviction in Pennsylvania should fall.

While Boyce is reputed to have called on his relatives for enough money to buy stogies with, Mrs. Boyce is said to be reveling in luxury. It is reported that rich relatives have deposited to her credit here $1,000. No one but her attorney, it is said, knows where it came from, but it is taken as evidence of the truth of the report that she is from a prominent and wealthy family.

--The Mansfield News, Mansfield, Ohio, April 21, 1909, page 2.