Word: adamses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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As every one knows, the White House, erected in 1799, had a primitive icebox of shaggy lumber. The ice was cut from the Potomac River and stored in a deep cellar adjoining the Presidential abode. Ceremonious John Adams always needed a big supply; frugal Thomas Jefferson used little.
Died. Thomas Adams, 80, famed "Father of Chewing gum." in Manhattan.
As it must to all men, Death came last week to Thomas Adams, 80, benefactor of tens of millions of gumchewers, at his Fifth Avenue home, Manhattan.
It was 40 years ago that Mr. Adams and his son paid a call on General Santa Anna of Mexico at Snug Harbor, Staten Island. From a bureau drawer the General produced "a little chunk of something resembling overshoeing." The guests beheld him place a piece of this substance in...
Going home, Mr. Adams pondered chicle's possibilities as a commercial rubber, but his subsequent attempts at vulcanizing (baking to harden) it, all failed. He tried to utilize it as a base for false teeth, but that failed. With $35 capital, Mr. Adams founded Adams & Son, chewing gum manufacturers...