American Chicle Company
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The American Chicle Company was a chewing gum trust founded by Thomas Adams, Jr., with Edward E. Beeman and Jonathan Primle.
Beeman's Pepsin Gum from the American Chicle Company
Adams Pepsin Tutti Frutti Gum
An advertisement of Adams chewing gum
Two women operating gum-wrapping machine at the American Chicle Company Plant in Brooklyn, New York, 1923
Black Jack (gum)
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Black Jack is an aniseed-flavored chewing gum manufactured by the American company, Gerrit J. Verburg Co.
American Chicle Company
…balls, named Adams New York Gum No. 1, in 1859, and they sold out quickly. In 1870, Adams created the first flavored gum, black licorice, which he named Black Jack. He sold it from a warehouse on Front Street. In 1871, Adams patented the first chewing gum making machine. In 1888, his company opened a factory on…
Two 5-stick packs of Black Jack gum