Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1918 — Winston-Salem, N. C., Great for Tobacco Manufacturing [ARTICLE]

Winston-Salem, N. C., Great for Tobacco Manufacturing

Although 200 miles from the seaboard in North Carolina, WinstonSalem, a dual city of 17,000 inhabitants, has been designated as a port of entry by the custom officials, because its imports of sugar, licorice and tobacco are enormous. Since 1910, according to Popular Science Monthly, the manufacture of tobacco products has increased more than 370 per cent Indeed, it is believed that Winston-Salem now. leads St. Louis as the chief tobacco manufacturing city in the United States. Eight days after the government had given Winston-Salem a $250,000 post office building the city had paid for it Ip tobacco revenue.