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IEinastsry'hent-ofectice•edireri a inretoib.ayatinel,an,n-lajsrkvr-eder.in,ileofllned-5)LEO5or-Boucher’s Is the Largest CigarFactory Operating in MissouriLike other successful business concerns of Joplin, the Leon S, Bouqher Cigar Company, of which Leon S. Boucher is president, started Jn a small way. Now It Is the largest cigar factory In Missouri anil one of the largest In the entire middle-west.• The company employs'a total of 250 persons and its product*,are sold throughout eight middle. western states, which territory Is covered by fourteen salesmen. The output Is approximately 1,000,000 cigars a month and the payroll is about $100,000 annually.The output of the factory is distributed chiefly through jobbers, although within a radius of 150 miles of Joplin salesmen call on the retail trade and sales are made direct from the factory to retailer.The company manufactures and sells cigars exclusively. Its leading brands are the Flor de Leon and Havana Special, the, former selling at from 5 cents to 15 cents and the latter at 15 cents.The factory is perhaps the best equipped cigae manufacturing plant in. the state, with all modern conveniences for the comfort of employes. Female workers are employed almost exclusively at the factory, Girin are taught the cigar-making trade and develop into highly skilled workers,A fact that is not generally known Is that the company is one of the largest revenue taxpayers in the state' of Missouri. It pays to the federal government about $60,000 each year in internal revenue taxes alone, and an additional $20,000 annually , is expended in payment of import duties on tobacco. ' Largely on account of the Boucher company the government has a revenue stamp branch office located here.From the far off island of Sumatra, the company gets the wrapper tobacco used in the manufacture of its cigar. The filler comes from Havana.The company was established about thirty years ago, with a limited capital. There has been no sudden expansion, but rather a steady growth and never in the thirty years of its existence has thecompany experienced a year.backwardSHOTGUN SERVICE ISPROVIDED BY THIS FIRMMine operators know what it means when the electric motor that drives the plant breaks down. It causes a shutdown of all operations and every minute of the suspension means a heavy financial loss.Meeting such emergencies is a specialty of the Empire Electric Machinery Company. Four crews of electric motor experts are maintained by the company, which has a factory at Fourth street and Pennsylvania avenue, Joplin. . Three' of the crews are kept in the Picher mining field and one crew works out of Joplin.On three different occasions the company hag established records in repairing motors which had put plants out of commission. On these occasions, the crews of experts rewound the motors and had them in operation within twenty-four hours.Another important and1 extensive service the company furnishes the mining industry consists of co-operating with operators in solving complex dewatering, -engineering and electrical problems.The company carries a large stock of motors and transformers of all sizes and also is equipped to repair or make motors and transformers. Coils for such electrical equipment are manufactured at the plant. The company also rents motors. It is district agent for English iron works hoists and also General Electric Company motors.The business was established in 1916 and employs eighteen persons.THIS GARAGE GROWSAS FORD SPECIALISTProbably no other business in the city has enjoyed a more rapid growth in the last six months than has the Williams Garage, Second and Wall streets.1The owner and proprietor, Ernest Williams, an expert Ford mechanic, established the garage about six months ago, starting with one medianeleveseverkeptTh Ford Ford age’a equi] carri for c on 5 ■ wCentSchobroutheFordby tbefo:self.day,busyWHAl ishal is ii-ence Allei and Spri: T1 'trlet buyi with out . Stra' ilar triet T1 O. T gan 1903 and plan areyearproxgoodTia ra mail migl theii far Wat Mo., topa and west Cc
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Joplin Globe
Joplin, Missouri, US
Fri, Jul 18, 1924
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