Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1910 — Tobacco Trust Raises Prices Three to Four Cents a Pound. [ARTICLE]

Tobacco Trust Raises Prices Three to Four Cents a Pound.

Tobacco merchants have been notified that the price of all varieties of smoking and chewing tobaccos had gone up three and four cents a'pound on wholesale lots. This will probably mean an even larger increase to the retail trade. Package smoking tobaccos that contained one and two-third ounces to the five cent package are’now to have but an ounce and a. half. This means about one more package will be necessary to make a pound than under the old plan. The cause of the increase is given out as the new internal revenue law, which went into effect July Ist, adding two cents additional revenue to the pound, making an increase of four or five cents a pound to the consumer.