When a dock labourer appeared before a Whitechapel magistrate charged with assaulting his wife the poor woman pleaded for him. “ ’E’s a good ’usband,” she told his Worship, “as long as ’e 'as ’is pipe, but it won’t always run to it, and then ’e sometimes loses ’is temper.” The magistrate nodded understandingly. He evidently knows the value of tobacco as a peace-maker. It certainly makes for domestic happiness, as a famous novelist told us long ago, and probably does more to prevent ‘‘angry passions” from rising than all the drugs in a chemist’s shop—always provided that it’s as pure and good as it ought to be. If it isn’t it may play up with you! The safest of all tobaccos are the genuine toasted brands, Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold. The toasting they get at the factory (the manufacturer’s exclusive process) absorbs the nicotine, while for flavour and aroma there’s no other tobacco to approach them. Connoisseurs say they compare favourably with anything from overseas
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20505, 25 August 1936, Page 5
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