Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1915 — WAR ON “TWO FOR” CIGARS [ARTICLE]

WAR ON “TWO FOR” CIGARS

Montclair Citizens Want Health Board to Pry Into Manufacture of Cheap Smokes. Montclair. N. J. —Captious citizens want the health department of this town to extend its paternalism to the “two for” cigars sold here. The board of health’s operations now include, among other things, the supervision of the milk supply and the manufacture of ice cream, the dispensing of soda water, the washing of glasses in beer saloons and the elimination of mosquitoes. Those who would have the health authorities pry into the manufacture of the cheaper cigars assert that they are as much a menace to health as impure milk, infected beer glasses and the mosquito. Few cigars are manufactured in this town, but it is asserted that the health department has as much right to control the source of the cigar supply as it has to Insist on certain regulations for the ’protection of the town’s milk supply, most of which comes from New York state. ,