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Posted By: Dave Hornish

Paging thru my copy of Sold American!....F.R. Penn is described as a "plugmaking subsidiary" that made Penn's Natural, Red J, and Gold Crumbs. Penn's No. 1 also seems to have been produced as plug and smoking tobacco and there is a railcar pictures describing Gold Crumbs as smoking tobacco as well. There were four primary subsidiaries in the plug group (chewing tobacco)and Penn seems to have been the smallest.

The most unfortunates parts of this book are the lack of any real emphasis on the cards and the glossing over of the breakup in 1911. Not unexpected for a book produced for ATC's 50th anniversary though.