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...Inceville, down in Santa Monica Canyon, where I played Indian for a dollar a day and lunch, when I got it. I grew a little bored with that because there was a man, who is now a rather popular director . . . and he was always the child in the Conestoga wagon. He was the only one who didn't get killed by the Indians, you see. And I used to rescue him about three times a week, and it bored...
THIS LAND Is OURS-Louis Zara-Houghton Mifflin ($2.75). By pure bulk of fodder this 776-page narrative of the Revolutionary frontier will satisfy munchers of romance as much as its mixture of admirable material and thoroughly uninspired talent will disappoint critics. In a Conestoga wagon, young Andrew Benton crosses the wild Alleghenies, gets into practically everything out there from the 1760s on, up to and including the last Indian war dance at Chicago...
...drivers of the old Conestoga wagons were inveterate smokers, and when the government first laid a tax on tobacco, these old wagoners were worried for fear they would have to give up their beloved smokes because of the high prices which the tax made necessary. George Black, a cigar manufacturer at Washington, came to their rescue with a cheap 'roll-up' which he sold at four for a cent. These 'smokes' immediately became popular with the wagoners who first called them 'Conestoga Cigars' which was later corrupted into 'stogies' and 'tobies...
...TIME also might be wronger but not much in stating that "To Conestoga went teamsters hauling lumber, tooling the team with one hand, while they rolled a cigar with the other." I would suggest to son Jimmie that he have a movie made showing such a stunt (if it can be done) and show it in the . . . slot movie machine to be put on the market by Mills-Globe...
...Reader Parker could be wronger, but not much. The Conestoga wagon was made in Conestoga, Pa., which had been named for the Conestoga Indians. To Conestoga went teamsters hauling lumber, tooling the team with one hand while they rolled a cigar with the other. Later Conestogas, or stogies, became favorites of the wagon trains freighting from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, where the drivers would sell the supply they had rolled along the way. Hence, Pittsburgh stogies. Wheeling came in on the freight...