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Show GOOD NEWS FOR LOVERS OF THE WEED Popular Drug Store to Co-operate . With National Cigar Stands Co. In Sale of Tobacco Products. .The opening of the National Cigar Stands in the Smith Drug company. Druehl'A Franken, Anness Pharmacy, Central Drug company. Lloyd Drug company. Claren H. McCoy and W. R. Clark's drug, stores will be" an event of unusual interest to smokers. It will bo the first opportunity for the smoker of Salt Lake City to test the benefits derived from the great union of 2000 cigar stands under the National Cigar Stands company's emblem. The stand itself will prove as much a revelation to smokers and dealers as will the price-reducing methods of this great concern. For beauty and utilltj I in preserving- cigars the stands m Smith Drug company, Druehl & Fran-ken, Fran-ken, Anness Pharmacy, Central Drug company. Lloyd Drug company, Clarer. H. McCoy and W. R. Clark's stores Is Indeed unique. The National Cigar Stands com- pany was formed ' by some 2000 American druggists who wished to combine the purchasing power of their cigar stands into one powerful market-controlling concern. Through the company, these druggists can buy in such vast quantities that they control their own factories, produce their own brands and bring cigars direct di-rect from factory. to smoker at price closer to the actual cost of production than has ever been known. By delivering cigars direct " from producer to smoker the National Cigar Stands company eliminates from their cigar prices four profits that ordinarily or-dinarily go to middlemen and Jobbers. This saving is given to the smoker in the form of lower prices on equal cigars ci-gars or in better values for the samo price. By producing In enormous quantities, eliminating the Jobber's profits and selling direct, with little expense for rent, and no expense for extra clerk hire, it is not surprising that National Cigar Stands are able to give to smokers smok-ers cigars of the usual 3-for-25c quality quali-ty for 6c, ten-cent cigars at 6c, and so on, up to the very finest class of Imported Im-ported Havana. |