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1862 January 4, Jonesboro Weekly Gazette, volume XII, number 49, Jonesboro, Ill., front page, column 6:
Two boys, one aged eight and the other twelve years, in Rome, Oneida county, N. Y., a few days ago, had a childish altercation about some chewing-gum and pop-corn, and, as they separated, threw at each other with sticks and other missiles, […]
“[…] What I like is chewing-gum.” “O, I should say so! I wish I had some now.” “Do you? I’ve got some. I’ll let you chew it awhile, but you must give it back to me.”
1940 April 27, Max Stafford, “Speed on the Sands”, in Illustrated Leicester Chronicle, page 18, column 3:
Then he wrenched off the top of a box, and commenced to cram chewing-gum into his mouth. Sticks of it; dozens of sticks.
