Shop brings a little tobacco revival to town

(KansasCity.com) ... Just as small-town people gathered around the radio to hear the latest news, people at Weston Tobacco gather around a wide-screen TV, watching CNN and ready to discuss the latest news.
All the while shop owner Corey Frisbee — eyes shaded by a cowboy hat — sits calmly cutting tobacco leaves. Then he skillfully shapes them into cigars and stacks them up, 100 to 120 a day. Continued

Image: Cigar store Indian, Denison, Iowa, 1936 by Russell Lee (FSA/Library of Congress).