Julia Marlow (1866–1950), English-born American actress, made her acting debut in 1878, in an American juvenile production of Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore. Over the next quarter century she became internationally known for her interpretations of William Shakespeare. She is pictured on this cigar tin, possibly with her distinguished actor husband, E. H. Sothern, in a scene from Romeo and Juliet.

John McCullough (1837–1872) was one of the great actors of the 19th-century American stage, along with Booth and Forrest. He specialized in roles depicting madness—Lear, Hamlet, Virginius. The last, his most famous, was a character in Virginia, based on a classical story about a Roman centurion who killed his daughter rather than allowing her to be raped by one of the city's rulers (a version of the story is told in Chaucer's "Physician's Tale", and is invoked in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus).

David Harum is the title character of an American popular novel by Edward Noyes Westcott (1846–1898) of Syracuse, New York. Harum is a comical, glib-talking banker-cum-horse-trader living in Homer, a village just outside Courtland in upstate New York. Based on a man Westcott encountered while summering in the area, he is given to statements such as, "They say a reasonable amount 'o fleas is good fer a dog—keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe."

Westcott had his manuscript turned down by six publishers; he died shortly after being notified it had been accepted by the seventh. The successful book sold well for 35 years; it was eventually made into a stage play, a silent film, and a talkie version starring Will Rogers.

Newspaper cartoon character Buster Brown (and his dog "Tige") debuted in 1902. He was a little rich boy, with a pageboy haircut and knee socks, who got into genteel trouble that was always summed up or "RESOLVED" in the final panel. The character was a marketer's dream, licensed by his creator, U.S. comic pioneer Richard Outcault, to more than 200 companies by 1904—most successfully to a shoe company, but also, it seems, to cigar manufacturers such as A. and I. Isaacs.

In 1859, the head of the highly successful Mercantile Agency, the first credit information provider to American business, turned the company over to his brother-in-law, R. G. Dun. Dun renamed the company after himself and continued to expand it across the United States, then internationally. In 1933, the company merged with its largest competitor to form Dun & Bradstreet.

Cigars bearing the name and picture of renowned American general, Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson (1824–1863), who fought on the Confederate side during the Civil War, were one of Canada's biggest sellers for over 60 years.

Named for Theodore ("Teddy") Roosevelt
(1858–1919), 26th president of the United States.

A box dedicated to two men associated with American beginnings: George Washington, the country's first president; and Christopher Columbus, credited with discovering America. Each man was once honoured by a festive civic holiday: Washington's Birthday, February 22; and Columbus Day, the second Monday in October. Washington's Birthday was shifted in 1971 to the third Monday in February and redesignated "President's Day." Columbus Day is still Columbus Day, but is now as much the occasion of angry demonstrations by Native Americans as celebrations of the arrival of Europeans to the Western Hemisphere in 1492.

Sherbrooke manufacturer W. R. Webster, who made the popular "Dutch Mike" cigar, licensed from the Webster Cigar Company in the United States the right to use American orator Daniel Webster's name and image on another of his brands.