Object of the Day: Adams' Tutti Frutti Gum

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Since it’s Halloween and children, and adults, around the world will be spending the evening in pursuit of candy, I thought I’d show you a card from my collection which advertises for Adams’ Tutti Frutti Gum.

The front of this early Twentieth Century card shows a bold graphic image of a card game. We’re told: 

CHEW ADAMS’ TUTTI FRUTTI CHEWING GUM. 

EUCHRE 

CLUBS TRUMP 

WHICH WINS? 

The hands of each gent remind us to “Chew Adams’ Tutti Frutti Gum.”

On the reverse we see quite a detailed account of:

WHAT IS SAID OF 

ADAMS’ 

TUTTI FRUTTI 

CHEWING GUM. 

     It is a well-established fact in chemical science that the saliva
is an active and necessary agent in aiding digestion.
     The chewing of the substance of which your Gum is composed
excites an abundant flow of saliva.
     As this is swallowed ot co-operates with the other fluids in the
digestive tracts in accomplishing the chemical changes which pre-
pare our nutriment for assimilation.
     I know of the cases where the chewing of your Gum for a short
time before and after each meal has given relief to certain forms of
dyspepsia. I am warranted in giving my opinion that the use of the
Gums manufactured by you, and which I have critically examined, is
not only harmless, but beneficial.
                                          R. OGDEN DOREMUS, M.D., LL. D.
     Chemical Analysis show its ingredients to be pure and healthful.
                                                      THE AMERICAN ANALYST
     Adams & Sons’ Tutti Frutti Chewing Gum is entitled to especial
praise and recognition. THE AMERICAN ANALYST.
     Chewing Gum before eating and between meals increased the
flow of saliva and aids digestion.
               AMHERST COLLEGE GYMNASIUM DIRECTIONS
     This Chewing Gum is made from the Sap of one of the finest
Fruit Trees in Mexico (the Chico-Zapoti) consequently it is purely
vegetable in substance.
     It is a guardsman to defend you against coughs and colds, and is
admitted to be one of the best purifiers of the breath by all refined
people of this and other large cities. It is a delicious preparation.
                                          THE NEW WORLD                            Adams + Sons 

Sold by all Druggists and Confectioners.                    NEW YORK