RACINE, WI — Back in the day, dock workers, businessmen, factory workers, and tavernkeepers would be seen with a cigar kept in their pockets or lit between their fingers after a long day at work. It ...
Milwaukee has always been famous for the beer it exports, but that Wisconsin city was once best known in Rochester for the cigar-makers it sent this way. In the decades on either side of 1900, ...
‘The Quad-Cities’ industrial heritage is not just about farm machinery and other heavy manufacturing. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, brewing and cigar making were major enterprises as the ...