IN THE “ ROARING ’FORTIES.” In the “ roaring ’forties,” when our grandfathers smoked churchwarden clays, John Dill of Virginia perfected his famous tobacco, Dill’s Best. From the very lirst day of its arrival men spoke of it as “ a mighty fine smokd,” and very quickly the news spread that here indeed was a masterpiece. Here was a blend as fragrant as the breath of spring, here was a tobacco possessing an incomparable aroma -sun-sweetened i Burley tear seasoned to the right! tempo. Eighty-two years have flown rind Dill's Best is with us in New Zealand to-day, a better tobacco than ever —a tobacco with eighty-two years’ manufacturing experience behind it. 5
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19197, 10 October 1930, Page 13
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