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  • I’d Rather Fight than Switch

    I’d Rather Fight than Switch

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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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Editor’s Staff
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“Big Letter Cards” is what the staff at the Curt Teich company called the Large Letter cards we collect today. These colorful linens were used by the thousands for more than twenty years. FIELD Large Letter cards – today’s topic – are the ones young men of three or four generations used to send word to their family to announce their safe arrival at a newly assigned duty post.

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