STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Today’s archive page is from Jan. 8, 1935. An ad for Chesterfield cigarettes published in the Advance highlights their taste. The ad reads: “Long speeches have been made about ...
Origins: In 1934 a particularly vicious rumor campaign aimed at disrupting sales of Chesterfield cigarettes went into effect. Up and down the Atlantic seaboard, then all across the U.S., the whispered ...