Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1917 — Fortune Chewed Up Each Year. [ARTICLE]

Fortune Chewed Up Each Year.

Loud and long are the complaints of the stringency of the times and the walls concerning the tightness of money; but these laments are not coming from the manufacturers of chew- , Ing gum. Neither the war nor any other calamity has affected the output of this great necessity, says the Popular Science Monthly. The annual imports of chewing , gum average about 7,000.000 pounds, although in 1913 the amount reached nearly 14,000,000 pounds. Thus It Is estimated that sl3,i 000,000 18 chewed annually.