A Tremendous Tax On Tea

One hundred and seventy thousand dollars paid in one week in one check, by Lipton, the greatest Tea dealer in the world. Some hundred odd years ago our forefathers dumped King George's tea into Boston harbor, all about a little tax matter and what grew out of it. But that affair was settled at arms, and tea drinking is more the custom than ever on both sides of the pond. Our British cousins like tea. The kind they like best is the celebrated Lipton Ceylon Tea. There is a big check to prove it. The greatest tea grower and dealer in the world is Thomas J. Lipton. His headquarters are in London, his plantations in Ceylon, and his wholesale agencies and warehouses almost all over the word. On April 28th Mr. Lipton broke all former records by drawing his check for 3S.365-9-2 (#l69756-36) to pay his import duty, on his imports of tea for that single week to supply that portion of his trade lying in Great Britain alone. Not only was it the largest check for dnty on tea ever paid into the English Custom House, but it was more than half the duty paid during that week on all teas imported through the English Custom House. This item has a flavor of local news interest for it is these same famous Lipton Ceylon Teas which are now being handled in Ann Arbor by Rinsey & Seabolt and Brown & Cady. They say that Lipton's teas are growing immensely popular. If all the women over the United States know a good thing when they taste it as our Ann Arbor ladies do, Lipton's trade will surely become greater in America than in Great Britain. Purity, flavor and the utmost cleanliness and care in handling are cardinal virtues of Lipton's Celebrated Ceylon Teas.