Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Justice of Peace Classifies Chewing Gum as a Drug, Aug. 28, 1924

Chewing Gum “Drug”

It remained for a Tacoma, Wash., justice of the peace to determine the classification for chewing gum. He classified it as a drug when efforts to call it either a food, drink or cosmetic failed, and authorities on the subject ignored the idea of giving it a class.

From the front page of the Alamance Gleaner, Graham, N.C., Aug. 28, 1924

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn84020756/1924-08-28/ed-1/seq-1/#words=AUGUST+28.+1924

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