Tough Times. Love the Marketing Angle

[El Presidente]

Best references that I can find is post WWI.

[Fuzz AI]

 

Half - Spanish 2 for 5 Cigar Tin for 50 Cigars. J.F. Bolon Makers Bethesda, Ohio. The tin was manufactured by The Heekin Can Co. Cin. O.

Interestingly, J.F. Bolo Cigar Co., was issued cease and desist orders for unfair methods of competition and other practices in 1935.

[Fuzz AI]

Doing a bit more searching, J.F. Bolon was a naughty boy when it came to advertising. There is a section the the Federal Trade Commission Decisions - Volume 25 - 1937, about what J.F. Bolon's company were doing to mislead consumers.

[El Presidente]

2 minutes ago, Fuzz said:

Doing a bit more searching, J.F. Bolon was a naughty boy when it came to advertising. There is a section the the Federal Trade Commission Decisions - Volume 25 - 1937, about what J.F. Bolon's company were doing to mislead consumers.

In the tobacco industry?

.....shocking