Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1903 — Give Cigar Boxes Away If You Wish. [ARTICLE]

Give Cigar Boxes Away If You Wish.

For several weeks an item has been going the, rounds of the papers to the effect that the internal revenue department of the government has issued orders forbidding the giving away of empty cigar boxes, saying that they must be destroyed. The Hammond News is authority for the statement that letters have been received from Capt. Elam, district revenue collector, in whieh that official states he has no knowledge of the department issuing such instructions, and that the dealers are free to dispose of cigar boxes as they choose.