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Browse Collection › LC Subject Heading › 6 records found where LC Subject Heading is Lone Jack Cigarette Company (Lynchburg, Va.)
	Letter from John T. Wightman to Richard Harvey Wright, January 03, 1888 Baltimore clergyman, John T. Wightman, expresses his disapproval about the photographs packaged in cigarette boxes and the evil the cigarette cards are doing to youth. Wightman begs Richard Harvey Wright to end the packaging of "vile pictures" in Lone Jack cigarettes.
	Letter from A. T. Powell to Richard Harvey Wright, January 17, 1889 A. T. Powell, secretary and treasurer of the Lone Jack Cigarette Company in Durham, North Carolina, describes a gruesome industrial accident that caused the death of a child in the Lynchburg cigarette factory. He notes that the Coroner called the death accidental.
	Letter from A. T. Powell to Richard Harvey Wright, January 18, 1889 A. T. Powell, secretary and treasurer of the Lone Jack Cigarette Company in Lynchburg, Virginia writes his general manager, Richard H. Wright that he has conducted an inquiry into the events that led to the death of Russell Candler, a child laborer. Powell reports further that the Coroner believes the accident could be attributed solely to the "carelessness" of the child.
	Letter from A. T. Powell to Richard Harvey Wright, August 26, 1889 A. T. Powell, secretary and treasurer of the Lone Jack Cigarette Company in Lynchburg, Virginia sends sympathies to Richard Harvey Wright for Little May's death and confides that he also buried his first born.
	Letter from Richard Harvey Wright to Thomas D. Wright, July 18, 1887 Writing on Lone Jack Cigarette Company stationary, Richard Harvey Wright directs his brother, Thomas, how to prize, package, and ship tobacco for the Charles Watkins & Company.
	Letter from Richard Harvey Wright to Thomas D. Wright, May 09, 1887 With anticipation of rising prices of tobacco cutters, Richard Wright advises his brother Thomas Wright to buy out Reed & McGees tobacco stock. In sharing family news, Richard writes that his daughter "Little May is I think improving."

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