Postcard History

December 14, 2025

Tag: alligators

  • I’d Rather Fight than Switch

    I’d Rather Fight than Switch

    Bob Toal

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    Selling tobacco with a symbol (the tobacco-store indian statue) or a slogan (“I’d rather fight than switch”) has a long and storied history. But “I’d rather fight than switch” wasn’t original with the old Taryton brand. Here’s the story.

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Past Article

Bob Teevan
August 11, 2024 1 Comment
In the four-hundred years since the marriage of peril and shelter were mingled by Shakespear for the sake of a good phase, Peril (politics) has changed considerably, Shelter has not. A lesson Miss Alexandra Carlisle never learned. Meet her here on a postcard.

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