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Featured Fade – Vintage Sen-Sen Ad – Milwaukee, WI – Pete Anderson

Pete Lit – “For Hoarseness.” Gorgeous, massive ad – six stories tall. 158 N. Broadway, Third Ward, Milwaukee. © Peter Anderson

“For Hoarseness.” Gorgeous, massive ad – six stories tall. 158 N. Broadway, Third Ward, Milwaukee. I actually visited, about ten years ago, the Chicago factory where Sen-Sen was last manufactured. I brought home a sample, but don’t remember trying it – the owners warned me that it had a strange taste. According to Wikipedia (which noted its “frequent use in covering up the odoriferous evidence of perceived vices such as drinking and cigarette smoking”) the product was discontinued in 2013. – Pete Lit, April 30, 2017

Vintage Ad from June 1901 – Judge Magazine – © Getty Images

Pepsi-Cola – Wrigley’s Doublemint Chewing Gum – Chiclets – Piedmont Tobacco – Durham, NC – Howard Karp

Roberti & Wittenberg Attorneys – Pepsi-Cola – At Founts or in Bottles © Howard Karp

Hue & Saturation altered, cropped reveals Piedmont (tobacco) © Howard Karp

Grayscale Wrigley’s Piedmont Pentimento © Howard Karp

Vintage Ads (Tobacco) 1910

composite © Howard Karp

Chiclets – Really Delightful – That Dainty Mint Covered Candy Coated Chewing Gum © Howard Karp

© Howard Karp

Uneeda Biscuit – Moglia’s Ice Cream – Wrigley’s Spearmint Gum – Morristown, NJ

Morris Street across from the train station © Frank H. Jump

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Morris Street across from the train station © Frank H. Jump

Moglia’s – The Ice Cream That’s Different – © Frank H. Jump

After Every Meal…Wrigley’s Spearmint Chewing Gum – The Flavor Lasts © Frank H. Jump

Duke University Digital Libraries – Atlantic City circa 1925

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Adams (Gum?) – Dundas – Toronto, ON

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The Adams Chewing Gum logo was in capital letters and this is script. Not sure if this was an ad for the gum, although there is an Adams-Canada connection:

1899 – American Chicle Company is formed by the amalgamation of the Adams & Sons Company, of Brooklyn; the Beeman Chemical Company, of Cleveland, Ohio; S. T. Britten & Co., of Toronto, Canada; W. J. White & Sons, of Cleveland, Ohio; J. P. Primley of Chicago, Illinois; and the Kisme Gum Company, of Louisville, Kentucky. The corporation is formed under the laws of New Jersey, June 3, 1899. Thecompany controls 85 percent of the chewing gum business in the United States. – Mondeléz International

Doublemint Spearmint Gum – Willoughby Avenue – Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn

© Frank H. Jump

Chew New (?) Peppermint Gum – Ice Cream – Clifton, NJ

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Wrigley's Gum – Bath, NY

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Wrigley's – Cola Pentimento – Bozeman, MT

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