The Archive · 1940

Women in War

The King and Queen spent some time last week among the women 'At American Women'

Club Garden Party Taken on the occasion of the an wal garden party of the American iaranerst venue. the residence of Homer club fel on June tat Crispin, the picture hows {left to right) Airs, mrine awe), ire. president of ihe Walter Paimer'(retiri Pond a (president) and Airs. ing' 18¢ vice-president), the extra $d. per ounce on tobacco onto each package of 20 cigarettes. Now taking the most popular sorts of Virginia cigarettes, 20 of them only' weigh three-quarters' of an ounce. the manufacturers must be maktnga, profit of four or five cigarettes on every packet, They say of course they" are not; in fact to hear them talk you would really think they were losing money in not charging Us fourpence more per packet. But when it comes to paying nearly a penny apiece for common gaspers, well, either you give up smoking of lynch the manufacturers.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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