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Chiclets is an American brand of candy-coated chewing gum owned by Perfetti Van Melle. The brand was introduced in 1900 by the American Chicle Company, a company founded by Thomas Adams.
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1912 advertisement
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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.
Chiclets
…Chiclets is an American brand of candy-coated chewing gum owned by Perfetti Van Melle. The brand was introduced in 1900 by the American Chicle Company, a company founded by Thomas Adams. The Chiclets name derives from the Mexican Spanish word chicle, from the Aztec Nahuatl word "chictli/tzictli…
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Two women operating gum-wrapping machine at the American Chicle Company Plant in Brooklyn, New York, 1923