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From: "Norita Moss" <> (by way of Wally Garchow <>)
Subject: Re: [MERCER] Cigar Factory
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 08:16:43 -0800


There were also cigar factories in Allen County . I know as
My grandmother, a couple of my aunts and my sister worked there. In fact it
my sister's first job as a secretary at 17 in 1951 was at The Lima Cigar
Factory. If you got downwind from them they did smell.
Rita


> [Original Message]
> From: Garnetmoon <>
> To: <>
> Date: 2/1/01 9:43:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [MERCER] Cigar Factory
>
> M y G reat Grand father Samuel Elis Shaffer son of Hiram Shaffer {Van
Buren
> Cemetery} his siste rolled C
> " Cuban Cigars " on her thigh in Hancock County. Many is thr time I
3watched
> him show me How & then she came to our home & She showed me how to roll a
> fine cigar with "long leaf a shorter bu more flavoreful leaf
> Hancock Couty was a Cigar Rolling Couty!
>
>
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