For some reason, cigars tend to turn up in a lot of famous aphorisms. There was "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" (Sigmund Freud), modified by Stephen King to "Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke," and before that Mark Twain's remark that "If heaven has no ...

Work on the former Avanti Cigar building on the 1000 block of North Main Avenue in Scranton uncovered a bit of history: the painted sign reading “Parodi Cigar Co. of NY.” Contractors razed the 1960s-era addition and a storage facility but preserved the ...

NEW BRUNSWICK — Female workers are shown at the United Cigar Co. factory in New Brunswick in a photo dating from the 1920s. Workers at the company, which opened in New Brunswick in 1903, were predominantly women of Hungarian heritage drawn from ...

Superior Sports Store had once been a cigar factory. According to Polk’s Holland City Directory, in 1901 there were five cigar manufacturers in Holland: Frank De Later at 178 N. River St., Henry Brink at Michigan Avenue and 32nd Street, R.M. Schregardus ...

A small drawing of a seal drew booming laughter during a history lesson on a local cigar company Sunday. Dominic Keating, president of Avanti Cigar Co., regaled a packed room at the Lackawanna Historical Society Catlin House with the history of the company ...