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Show IdRSDEIlD FIVE-CENT CIGAR Chicago Dealers Announce Return to Normalcy: CHICAGO, 111, Auc. 4 (By A. P) : Roused from Its moribund lethargy by 'tha demand of tha palates of thnuaanda iof amok era, tha ft-cnt cigar la back 'with Its multi-colored banners streaming. stream-ing. In shop windows and on cljrar counters coun-ters everywhere the nickel smoke product, prod-uct, which disappeared back In war days. la being displayed In a profusion nf aha pea and varieties, while gigantic hill board advertisements are wending forth' their message of this return to normalcy in the totmcro world. "What the country needs moat Is . I good ft-cent cigar," la a remark attributed at-tributed to Mark Twain. And those smoker who aaw the one time 5-cent brand a mount to d. 7, i, and sometimes 10 cent a, during the period of soaring prlcfa. now hne pknty to select from. Tobacco merchants, cigar wholeaal-ers wholeaal-ers and tohacconlata all admit that the ft-cent cigar Is the faateat moving article ar-ticle In the trade, but they disagree as to Its merits. Retail dealers are Inclined In-clined to the belief It Is aa good as any nf the old branda which climbed during the war. Tobacco tnerchiinta aay It 1 can't be aa good as the old standby because be-cause the coat of materials and labor la still above the old level Ann manufacture manu-facture ra aay It lan't as good as tha nickel favorite of prewar days. I "We can't get enough s-cent cigars.", aald a salesman n a loop tobacco, jihnp We Tiave pretly good litam tit that price now. however, and my customers buy so many I keep the boxes on the: counter. If I put them In the case II would be busy hauling them out and returning them. The two for a quarter quar-ter Is done for. In my opinion. The public wants R-ccnters for every day and 10 cents for Hunday." |