Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1894 — Trick of the Cigar Trade. [ARTICLE]

Trick of the Cigar Trade.

There is a little trick in the cigar business to which some dealers will confess good naturedly if you ask them about it The dealers will display a card in a box announcing that the cigar ts sold fpr twenty cents; 819.50 a hundred, extremely innocent person would suppose that the dealer could not expect to sell many of those cigars at wholesale when a buyer of 100 would save only one-half a cent on each cigar. Well, the dealer doesn't expect to sell them by wholesale, and he doesn’t sell them, but he knows that it just tickles a smoker to death to think that he is getting a single cigar for practically what it would cost him if he bought a ship load of them.