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WOWEE Glenn Confections complete line of Halloween
paraffin chewing wax items included:
Continued from Page 1 Fingernails, Wowee Whistle, Mustachios, Funny
Face, Tongue, Mustache & Syrup filled Skeleton.
John W. Glenn virtually
grew up in the early years
of the 20 century in his The whistles we purchased,
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father’s wholesale candy however, were either chewed
business. When his father up or lost (we suspected our
died in 1912, Glenn renamed father threw them away)
the business J.W. Glenn before Halloween night.
Co. (Glenn Confections), Halloween and candy
employing nearly 100 collectors both vie for these
workers and 18 national paraffin whistles and Glenn’s
salesmen. Glenn’s biggest promotional trade ads that
contribution to the candy once filled magazines,
market was introducing showing the company’s full
children to paraffin penny line of paraffin lips, fangs, moustaches, and harmonicas.
chewing gum candies. Wowee Whistles have not been manufactured for over 40 years. The
Wowee Whistles looked Wowee Whistle advertising flier ones offered on eBay are often squished and partially melted since
like a Pan flute, were made by Glenn Confections, Inc. storing paraffin in hot kitchen drawers, attics, or garages melts the
of orange paraffin wax (with paraffin. But since Wowee Whistles are truly quite rare
sugar, lecithin, and artificial today, one in “squished condition” is valued at
flavor and coloring) that a child could chew like gum, and they $100. Mint conditioned Wowee Whistles
tasted like unflavored earwax. Actually, Wowee Whistles tasted sell for around $250, and they
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like you were chewing on small birthday candles pulled from a
75 Halloween once was.
301 Lockwood Ridge Rd birthday cake (don’t ask me how I know this). My sister, Kathy,
MLK Hwy and I each year purchased our Wowee Whistles at Central Park
Sarasota Drug Store in Omaha, Nebraska. The Drug Store always carried
Central
10th Paraffin Wowee Whistle by Glenn
Fruitville an excellent selection of penny candies, and, at Halloween, the Confections that has an owl on it and
Wowee Whistle was our favorite kind. is valued at $100.
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