One of the Last Cigar Factories Shuttered

[blessednxs65]

A sad day indeed.

Linky

 

[thebayratt]

The loss of that factory is going to put a hurt on that town.

Maybe if they had gotten into hand rolling and the machine rolling, they would have been still afloat.

 

[tobii3]

Maybe if they had gotten into hand rolling and the machine rolling, they would have been still afloat.

Reading the article -

...but the passage of a new tobacco tax a few years ago and the economic recession “pushed us over the cliff,” Jacobs said.

Wouldn't have changed a thing.