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Cigar manufacturers roll into Provo shops 

When Columbus and succeeding Spanish explorers came to the New World, they found Indians smoking long, thick twists of tobacco wrapped in palm leaves or corn husks. The Mayan word to describe the process of smoking was sikar. Hence, the Spanish gave the name cigarro to the rolled tobacco twist the Native Americans smoked. . . . .

Provo's Dispatch acknowledged the opening of the city's initial cigar factory in March 1891. . . .

Paul & Neibaur lost nearly everything in their cigar factory, although volunteers carried a considerable stock of cigars and tobacco into the street before the fire in the front part of the building became too hot.

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