Life, 1916-02-24 · page 35 of 48
Life — February 24, 1916 — page 35: what you’re looking at
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O bite” is about as poor a recommendation for to- bacco as “no rheumatics” is for awooden leg. But tobacco that won't bite and yet is chuck full of taste—that’s a different story—that’s VELVET. VELVET i is good tobacco, with an Vii "round goodness. WELVET is smooth with an aged-in-the-wood smoothness given it by two years’ age- ing in wooden hogsheads. There are mild tobaccos, and fragrant ones,and some that are slow-buming. But 10c Tins 5c Metal-lined Bags One Pound Glass Humidors there is only one VELVET, with these excellent smoking qualities, mellowed and improved naturally by ageing. There is only one smoking tobacco that ever received an Exposition Grand Pnx. VELVET was given this award, the highest in the gift of the Panama Pacific inant Exposition.