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Candy or (sweets) ads, as they were known in
the day, were not very prevalent in the old newspapers. Most
candy manufacturers were localized and sold through word of
mouth. The ads that appeared in the local paper in Milwaukee,
were not seen in the paper down in Houston. There are some
national brands that will be familiar with here. It wasn't
until later years that candy hit mainstream advertising in the
print media.
Kate
Smith - Gonna
Meet My Sweetie Now - 1927 - Press Play Button
Read the excerpt below from which
speculates on the discovery of gum by ancient cave
dwellers.
From The Evening
Standard in Ogden City, Utah
Fully $10,000,000 worth of chewing gum Is sold in the United
Status in the course of a year or counting the one cent cakes
or the dosage apportioned lo Individuals at a time, fully
1,000,000,000 chews are delivered. The basis of this elastic
medium Is the chicle, the gum which exudes from the groves of
Yucatan. There la nothing alluring about as it as it is
gathered for there Is scarcely any taste, being devoid of the
delicate woodland flavor of the Maine
spruce.
Fully 6000000 pounds of chicle are used In the United States
annually for chewing gum manufacture the  great centers of manufacture being New York,
Philadelphia and Cleveland The Oho city has had several
chewing gum millionaires at one tine and all through the
western reserve the Inhabitants have a studious
Introspective look gained from standing
In the fields or at street corners
revolving the gum In a contemplative
way.
 Perhaps In those times some ancestor sat in his
cave chewing for hours meditatively at a bit of gristle
while outside howled a storm through which he could not
make his way to seek more provender. It Is not beyond the
theory proposed then that tiring of the gristle he might
have obtained some gums exuding from the cherry tree or
Its prototype or balsam from the pine and kept his jaws
working to keep away the pangs of hunger. The chewing of
gum Is of the primeval world then, just as the desire to
adorn the neck of woman
with pearls and diamonds Is as old as the
plan of that denizens of the caves of long ago who
rounded and polished red stones found In the bed of the
brook and drilled holes in them and made of them a
necklace for his lady fair to take the place of the
scarlet berries which adorned her and then
perished.
Such
is one theory at least as to the origin of the American
chewing gum habit. The
Evening standard, December 17,
1910
 
Doublemint Gum
Commercial
15 cents a pound? Good chocolates are
$15 a pound and up today!
 
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