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The secret of gum manufacture is cracked

A Frenchman, Claude Gaget, introduces Henry Isaac and brother Joseph to the technique of manufacturing Crystalized Gum Pastilles. This opens the way to the development of  Fruit Pastilles and Fruit Gums which are to become bulwarks of the company’s future prosperity.

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